Quotes About Environment

The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!

So if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere?

If it doesn't rot, it's not real food.

Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.

We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.

I always say that environment always affects the food.

The more chemicals that are in our food, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of.

Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.

Food is the place where you begin.

The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that seeds must be in the hands of farmers.

I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again

I plan to write more songs of my own, especially on behalf of the animals we needlessly raise for food, at their great expense, and at great expense to our precious, deteriorating planet.

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate.

We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like honest labor, like food.

Should a small business or a large business be able to pollute the water or the air or the food? No, I hope you don't believe that.

much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food.

Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's.

I really liked German food. And it's very clean.. It's a very clean country. They kind of get rid of the waste really well... the garbage.

I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

To survive, humans need food, water, and air. Yet biodiversity, the Earth's bodies of water, and the planet's atmosphere are all under threat.

What I've been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets.

As people move further away from a meat-based diet, I think the focus will shift to using grains as the central focus of our food supply.