Quotes from Dan Barber

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.

We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate.

People complain that cities don't have fresh, sustainable food, but it's just not true.

It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.

When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology.

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.

We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.

If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big picture.

There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.