Quotes About Agriculture

Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.

Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat!

If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.

One of the major problems is what we do to the soil, the air, the water and everything, we take in our food.

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?

Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.

We need real farmers who grow real food, and the will to reform a broken food system. And for that, we need not only to celebrate farmers, but also to advocate for them.

One day people will look back with amazement that we ever sought to grow our food with poisons.

All I'm saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end.. environmentally and everywhere else.. for the food that is produced in a particular way.

The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.

The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.

Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity.

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.

In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not eaten by humans as food, however.

Always acknowledge your position in the food chain... They eat because you grow the food.

The first zucchini I ever saw I killed it with a hoe.

What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.

It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.

We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.

Food availability is not really the issue. The quality of the food is what we recognize is the problem.

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

The fact that China has about seven percent arable land, means that she's always going to be looking for places that have more arable lands to finance or to provide food stuffs.