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Top 25 Mark Bittman Quotes (2025 Update)

Mark Bittman Quote: “This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.”

1. “This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?”

2. “Let me pose you a question. Can farm-raised salmon be organic when its feed has nothing to do with its natural diet, even if the feed itself is supposedly organic, and the fish themselves are packed tightly in pens, swimming in their own filth?”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “Anyone can cook, and most everyone should.”

3. “Anyone can cook, and most everyone should.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “Junk food companies are acting very much like tobacco companies did 30 years ago.”

4. “Junk food companies are acting very much like tobacco companies did 30 years ago.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.”

5. “1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we’d be.”

6. “The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we’d be.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “50-100 years from now we are all going to be eating a plant based diet. Whether that happens through a catastrophe or a peaceful sustainable life giving way is based on whether we make the right choices now and how we fight in this struggle together.”

7. “50-100 years from now we are all going to be eating a plant based diet. Whether that happens through a catastrophe or a peaceful sustainable life giving way is based on whether we make the right choices now and how we fight in this struggle together.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “If you embrace moderation, eat whole foods instead of junk, live within your physical, monetary, and environmental budget rather than constantly exceeding it, you will lose weight, tread more lightly on the planet, and gain satisfaction from these things.”

8. “If you embrace moderation, eat whole foods instead of junk, live within your physical, monetary, and environmental budget rather than constantly exceeding it, you will lose weight, tread more lightly on the planet, and gain satisfaction from these things.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “I’ll never stop eating animals, I’m sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly.”

9. “I’ll never stop eating animals, I’m sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we’re only realizing just now.”

10. “Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we’re only realizing just now.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “If price spikes don’t change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals.”

11. “If price spikes don’t change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “In any case, the principles are simple: deny nothing; enjoy everything, but eat plants first and most. There’s no gimmick, no dogma, no guilt, and no food police.”

12. “In any case, the principles are simple: deny nothing; enjoy everything, but eat plants first and most. There’s no gimmick, no dogma, no guilt, and no food police.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “It’s good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh.”

13. “It’s good to have a short memory because it keeps life fresh.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “Vegan or not, gluten-free or not, Erin McKenna’s donuts are the best I’ve had in 20 years, without exception.”

14. “Vegan or not, gluten-free or not, Erin McKenna’s donuts are the best I’ve had in 20 years, without exception.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “Keeping some calorie-dense food in your diet-whether it is meat, pasta, beer, or cake-allows you to reach satiety more quickly and easily. And this will keep you from feeling deprived.”

15. “Keeping some calorie-dense food in your diet-whether it is meat, pasta, beer, or cake-allows you to reach satiety more quickly and easily. And this will keep you from feeling deprived.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “We need real farmers who grow real food, and the will to reform a broken food system. And for that, we need not only to celebrate farmers, but also to advocate for them.”

16. “We need real farmers who grow real food, and the will to reform a broken food system. And for that, we need not only to celebrate farmers, but also to advocate for them.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “The truly healthy alternative to that chip is not a fake chip; it’s a carrot.”

17. “The truly healthy alternative to that chip is not a fake chip; it’s a carrot.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “Teach a cook a recipe and he’ll cook for a night; teach a cook a technique and she’ll improvise for a lifetime.”

18. “Teach a cook a recipe and he’ll cook for a night; teach a cook a technique and she’ll improvise for a lifetime.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates – the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day – our demand for these things, not our need, our want – drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us.”

19. “Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates – the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day – our demand for these things, not our need, our want – drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “America’s food system is broken.”

20. “America’s food system is broken.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “I got into cooking out of self-defense.”

21. “I got into cooking out of self-defense.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “We need to demonise soda, the way we’ve demonised cigarettes.”

22. “We need to demonise soda, the way we’ve demonised cigarettes.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “Your ‘Pringle’ contains 30% potato, that yoghurt has the same amount of sugar as ice cream, that whole grain cereal bar may be no better for you than a snickers.”

23. “Your ‘Pringle’ contains 30% potato, that yoghurt has the same amount of sugar as ice cream, that whole grain cereal bar may be no better for you than a snickers.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “I think people at least now, as opposed to ten-15-20 years ago, kind of get it, what is the bad food. I think, before, there was a time when they didn’t even get it that processed food was hurting them. Now, I think they get that, but the big enemies to switching over to good food are convenience.”

24. “I think people at least now, as opposed to ten-15-20 years ago, kind of get it, what is the bad food. I think, before, there was a time when they didn’t even get it that processed food was hurting them. Now, I think they get that, but the big enemies to switching over to good food are convenience.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “We are already eating less animal foods since a few years ago, but we are still eating 8-9 billion animals per year.”

25. “We are already eating less animal foods since a few years ago, but we are still eating 8-9 billion animals per year.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “And it should not come as no shock that Big Food, along with the pharmaceutical industry and its scientists for hire, has promoted confusion in the media and in the mind of the American consumer to contribute to our culture of overconsumption.”

26. “And it should not come as no shock that Big Food, along with the pharmaceutical industry and its scientists for hire, has promoted confusion in the media and in the mind of the American consumer to contribute to our culture of overconsumption.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “If you’re a progressive, if you’re driving a Prius, or you’re shopping green or you’re looking for organic, you should probably be a semi-vegetarian.”

27. “If you’re a progressive, if you’re driving a Prius, or you’re shopping green or you’re looking for organic, you should probably be a semi-vegetarian.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “Ecologists recognized that resources are finite, and that nature is in charge. That’s basic science. Capitalists believe that nature exists to be exploited by humans, a tenet perfectly in tune with Western religion.”

28. “Ecologists recognized that resources are finite, and that nature is in charge. That’s basic science. Capitalists believe that nature exists to be exploited by humans, a tenet perfectly in tune with Western religion.”

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Mark Bittman Quote: “To quote the philosopher Max Roser: “Three things are true at the same time. The world is much better; the world is awful; and the world can be much better.” There is plenty of good work to do.”

29. “To quote the philosopher Max Roser: “Three things are true at the same time. The world is much better; the world is awful; and the world can be much better.” There is plenty of good work to do.”

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