A Quote by Pier Paolo Pasolini
The power of consumer goods . . . has been engendered by the so-called liberal and progressive demands of freedom, and, by appropriating them, has emptied them of their meaning, and changed their nature.
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Consumer preferences for food have changed... Changed radically. I call them seismic shifts.
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