Organic foods: Professor Regan will investigate three claims that make organic food scientifically better: it’s more nutritious; it uses less pesticides; and finally organic is better for animal welfare. Professor Regan is starting out as a sceptic ... The UK Government’s Food Standards Agency maintains there is not enough evidence to prove that organic food is more nutritious ... The evidence that is available convinces many scientists that conventional food is safe. So claim two is not proven ... So claim three that organic farming must always be better for animal welfare could be a moral personal question rather than a scientific one. So organic food will not be going into Professor Regan’s trolley. ibid.
There’s still no robust evidence that it’s their anti-oxidant activity that’s doing us good. And an innocent advert claiming their smoothies had detoxing effects was ruled unproven. The advert was withdrawn. ibid.
I wanted to see if Science can offer a different way to stop the rot, slow the clock. Professor Michael Mosley, Horizon: Eat, Fast and Live Longer, BBC 2012
It’s all a question of what you eat, or rather what you don’t eat. It’s about fasting. But fasting made easier. ibid.
It seems it’s not just about what we eat but how and when we eat it. ibid.
Only now are scientists really beginning to understand the link between calorie restriction and longevity in humans. ibid.
Hunger really does make you sharper. ibid.
That doesn’t mean intermittent fasting will work for everyone. ibid.
I plan to go on doing it. ibid.
Taste is our most sensuous and indulgent of senses. It turns out that the story of why we like what we like is a lot more surprising than you think. Horizon – The Truth About Taste, BBC 2013
We all have a favourite food ... What you love eating is as unique as a fingerprint. ibid.
We all remember foods we used to hate. ibid.
We develop a liking if we keep tasting it. ibid.
Your sensitivity changes as you age. Your sense of bitter fades. ibid.
Different people do have different reactions to the same taste. ibid.
What most think of as taste is in fact smell. ibid.
This is either a protein-rich and nutrient-packed dietary necessity or an artery-clotting life-shortening food to avoid. I am genuinely confused. Dr Michael Mosley, Horizon: Should I Eat Meat? BBC 2014
What’s in it that’s doing the harm? ibid.
When the connection between fat and heart trouble was made, red and processed meat were firmly in the firing line. ibid.
Carnitine can react with bacteria in our guts to produce TMAO, a substance that can slow down removal of cholesterol from our arteries. ibid.
What is it that makes processed meat like ham and bacon potentially carcinogenic? ibid.
Britain is in the grip of an obesity epidemic. We can’t seem to stop eating and we are getting fatter. Dr Giles Yeo, Horizon: Why Are We Getting So Fat? BBC 2016
Obesity is conceived as quite a simple problem … ‘Our urge to eat … is a product of hundreds of thousands of years of evolution.’ ibid.
These high sugar levels flow across the placenta. ibid.
Imagine if the food you choose could clean your body and make you feel well … Clean is a totally new approach to food driven by social media. Horizon: Clean Eating – The Dirty Truth, BBC 2017
Can we really eat ourself well? ibid.
Cutting out one food stuff we’ve eaten for millennia: Gluten. ibid.
The China Study has sold two million copies. ibid.
ClimateGate: These are people who deserve to go to prison for a very long time. And I’ll tell you why I’m so angry about it ... Global warming isn’t killing anyone and it’s not going to kill anyone. What is killing people and it’s killing them by the millions of starvation now is the effect of the global warming scare. Because many nations including the United States have taken up to a third of their agricultural land out from growing food for people who needed it to buying bio-fuels for clunckers that didn’t. And that has meant in the last year or two a doubling, and I mean a doubling, of world food prices. Lord Christopher Monckton, interview Alex Jones
The need for food hasn’t just shaped sea-squirts it’s shaped us as well – from our own guts to the way we move, the way the behave and even the way we experience the world around us. Dr Alice Roberts, Origins of Us 2/3: Guts, BBC 2011
The evidence of your diet is etched on to the surface of your teeth in the forms of scratches and pits. ibid.
We are specifically adapted to eating starchy foods. ibid.
Recent research suggests it was cooking, not meat, that fuelled the evolution of our big brains. It was cooking that made us human. ibid.
In every major deal Mr Kissinger has done in recent years food has been a decisive factor ... For prolonging the war in Vietnam the generals in Saigon got American food, which they sold for arms ... There is a new more powerful weapon – food. And this one is lethal. John Pilger, Zap! The Weapon is Food for Dictators, ITV 1976
People starve to death for a number of reasons; the least understood reason is the denial of food for motives of politics and profit. ibid.
One of the weapons that brought down the democratically elected Allende government in Chile was food. On Dr Kissinger’s orders most American food aid to Chile was cut off, and hunger and disorder followed, leading to a military takeover which brought Chile back into the American fold. And of course once the generals and admirals were in power, Chile got its food back. ibid.
Up to 1974 the US government had paid American farmers $3 billion not to plant millions of acres of cereal crops. This kept the world price inflated. And as a result the food that was available was beyond the reach of those countries on the Zap List like Chile, and countries like Bangladesh that were considered strategically expendable and had no reserves of hard currency. ‘Hunger,’ said President Harry Truman, ‘is fostered not by scarcity but by greed.’ ibid.
For the first time since the Great Depression, Britain’s so-called Welfare State is deliberately cutting back the means of survival of its poorest and their children ... Perhaps the least understood crisis in the last few months has been that more and more impoverished parents can no longer afford to feed their children ... A Child Poverty Action group report last month stated that 5,000,000 men, women and children in Britain now have no more than £1.60 a week to spend on food. John Pilger, Smashing the Kids
In Paris you can buy a beer in McDonald’s. And you know what they call a quarter pounder with cheese in Paris? ... Royale with Cheese. Pulp Fiction 1994 ***** starring Uma Thurman & John Travolta & Samuel L Jackson & Harvey Keitel & Tim Roth & Amanda Plummer & Maria de Medeiros & Ving Rhames & Eric Stoltz & Rosanna Arquette & Bruce Willis & Christopher Walken et al, director Quentin Tarantino, Vincent to Jules
Looks like me and Vincent caught you boys at breakfast. Sorry about that. What ya having? Hamburgers! The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast. What kind of hamburgers? No where’d you get them? McDonald’s? Wendy’s? Jack in the Box? Where? Big Kahuna Burgers! ibid. Jules
I’ll have the Derwood Kirby Burger. Bloody. And the five dollar shake. ibid. Mia
That’s a pretty fucking good milkshake. ibid. Vincent to Mia
You know what I’m going to have for breakfast? I’m going to order a big plate of blueberry pancakes with maple syrup. Eggs over easy. Five sausages. ibid. Fabienne to Butch
Any time of the day is a good time for pie. ibid.
1993: What the fuck is this? ... This is fucking inedible. This is dirty fucking haddock poisonous slop ... Not even if you cut my sentence by six months ... You do realise that poisoning someone is a crime? Bonded by Blood 2010 starring Tamer Hassan & Robert Fucilla & Vincent Regan & Terry Stone & Adam Deacon & Neil Maskell & Dave Legano & Johnny Palmiero & Duncan Meadows et al, director Sacha Bennett, Darren’s prison protest
I think we’ve found the root of the problem. Let’s serve them something else. Something fresh. ibid. Governor to Screw
You know what we need, don’t ja – a nice bowl of eels. Big Fat Gypsy Gangster: Bulla the Movie 2011 starring Ricky Grover & Omid Djalili & Tulisa Contostavlos & Steven Berkoff & Peter Capaldi & Rufus Hound & Rochelle Wiseman & Laila Morse et al, director Ricky Grover
Albert, leave him alone. Come on, let’s eat. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 1989 starring Helen Mirren & Alan Howard & Richard Bohringer & Tim Roth & Michael Gambon & Ian Drury & Cairan Hinds & Gary Olsen & Ewan Stewart & Liz Smith et al, director Peter Greenway, Georgina to Albert
Good cook. Except he will put mushrooms on everything. ibid. Albert at table
Money’s my business, eating’s my pleasure. ibid.
I bet human milk’s a great delicacy in some countries. It ought to be here. ibid.
Could you cook him? ibid. Georgina to Chef
Eating black food is like consuming death. ibid. chef
Have all those carefully learnt table manners gone to waste? ibid. Georgina to Albert
Hot dogs. Hot dogs. Get your hot dogs. They Shoot Horses Don’t They? 1969 starring Jane Fonda & Michael Sarrazin & Susannah York & Gig Young & Red Buttons & Bonnie Bedelia & Bruce Dern & Allyn Ann McLerie & Robert Fields & Michael Conrad, seller
A census taker once tried to test me: I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti. Slugh-lugh-lugh-lugh. The Silence of the Lambs 1991 starring Jodie Foster & Anthony Hopkins & Scott Glen & Ted Levine & Anthony Heald & Brooke Smith & Diane Baker & Kasi Lemmons & Frankie Fraison & Tracey Walter et al, director Jonathan Demme