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"The food industrialists have by now persuaded millions of consumers to prefer food that is already prepared. They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mom) beg you to eat it. That they do not yet offer to insert it, prechewed, into your mouth is only because they have not found a profitable way to do so. We may rest assured that they would be glad to find a way. The ideal industrial food consumer would be strapped to a table with a tube running from the factory directly into his or her stomach." The Pleasures of Eating