". . . laying a giant fiber-laden, aerobic turd of greed on the history of the republic."

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"It is also clear, in a historical perspective, that our current, most active generation--those between twenty and forty--is laying a giant fiber-laden, aerobic turd of greed on the history of the republic."- - Jim Harrison, The Raw and the Cooked, Adventures of a Roving Gourmand. 

Harrison wrote that in a piece in 1989 and it has turned out to be prophetic.