Quotes About Farming

I eat meat, but no meat that isn't pastured is acceptable, and we probably need to eat a whole lot less.

Agriculture drives most people crazy. It keeps me sane.

My grandparents owned an apple orchard when I was growing up - a lot of apples, cherries... now, actually, a lot of grapes, too, to be honest.

I wish I owned a bunch of farm land. I'd love to have fields full of grain.

I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.

On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.

As a farmer, I understand firsthand the challenging circumstances the COVID-19 pandemic has created within our agriculture community.

As a parent, I tell my boys to keep away their smartphones and go outdoors and play. I take them to our farm where my father does a bit of farming, where they get their hands dirty. It is their digital detox.

We go to several farms and look at foraging, and throw backyard parties with friends. We want to let people know they can enjoy a sense of Tuscany anywhere.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

major American agricultural concerns.

At Monticello he planned to return to farming and gardening with passionate zeal.

Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm.

About 3 million pounds of antibiotics are given to humans each year, but a whopping 17.8 million pounds are fed to livestock.

Every time you make a decision about food, Paul pleaded, quoting Berry, "you are farming by proxy.

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) calculated 24.6 million pounds of antibiotics were fed to chickens, pigs, and other farmed animals, only counting nontherapeutic uses.

Quizá no exista la carne. En su lugar, existe este animal, criado en esta granja, sacrificado en esta planta, vendido de este modo y consumido por esta persona.

All told, farmed animals in the United States produce 130 times as much waste as the human population —

Between 1950 and 1970, the number of American farms declined by half, the number of people employed in farming declined by half, and the size of the average farm doubled. During that time, the size of the average chicken has doubled.

La gabbia standard per ovaiole concede a ogni gallina una superficie di 4,32 decimetri quadrati, grande come questo rettangolo. Quasi tutte quelle non allevate in gabbia hanno a disposizione all'incirca la stessa superficie

Americans eat 150 times as many chickens as we did only eighty years ago.

Chickens once had a life expectancy of fifteen to twenty years, but the modern broiler is typically killed at around six weeks. Their daily growth rate has increased roughly 400 percent.)

Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I've yet to find a credible defense of it. But food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity. For some, that irrationality leads to a kind of resignation. Food

And I'll tell you another thing: if consumers don't want to pay the farmer to do it right, they shouldn't eat meat.