Quotes About Agriculture

Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.

The brutal fact is that which foods are available in your grocery store is determined by trade wars, agriculture policy, and the outsized power wielded by large corporations.

The big part of coffee production in many rural areas is in the hands of women. It's women who work in the fields. They harvest the coffee. They wash the coffee. They take the coffee to the market. But when the coffee gets to the market, it's the man who cashes in the money for the crop.

What we do know absolutely is that human lives are worth more than grapes and that innocent-looking grapes on the table may disguise poisonous residues hidden deep inside where washing cannot reach.

The French fry did not become America's most popular vegetable until industry took over the jobs of washing, peeling, cutting, and frying the potatoes - and cleaning up the mess.

Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

the essence of a reliable and stable military lay in a contented peasantry.

We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.

Indian Council for Agricultural Research

I have a conflicted view on beer styles. As historical artifacts, they're endlessly fascinating to study. And I think that they generally represent confluences -- and compromises -- of technology, agriculture, cuisine, and geology that make the most of what a region has to offer. That means existing styles are usually quite wonderful to drink, and I'm all for that.

Farmers union leaders are already saying that the protest will last till the Govt wants and that means this protest is funded by Govt and the day Govt will ask them to stop drama , they will agree with the bills and ditch the poor farmers. The same thing was seen in Janlokpal movement witch gave citizens only dhokapal.

The God-fearing, churchgoing farmers are all gone. Now they all have TVs on their roofs and orgies in their barns. The flux, Fly, man, the flux of time. If everything goes tits up, there's always the farm and the cows...

Ironically it is GMO plants—many of which are designed to resist insects and other forms of blight and thereby require greatly reduced levels of chemicals, if any—that offer the best hope for reversing environmental assault from chemicals such as pesticides.

We all know that cattle and beef are among the biggest contributors to carbon emissions.

I would make a tough law that would force all supermarkets to source at least 15 per cent of their fresh produce from a very small radius of the store.

I'm going to be the unapologetic chief advocate, chief salesman for American agriculture products around the world. You grow 'em, we're going to sell 'em.

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an era in which the supermarket was king, the farmer's market was, well, for farmers, and the word 'locavore' sounded vaguely like a mythical beast.

A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.

I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.

In a given year, the government may decide that farmers are growing more raisins than Americans will want to eat. That would cause supply to outstrip demand. Raisin prices would drop. And raisin farmers might go out of business.