Quotes About Agriculture

Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.

We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.

I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world.

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.

The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains as well as our fields so that when some of them fail, we can still eat.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.

When you control seed, you control food.

Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.

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 am happy to see that, increasingly, people care about farm workers. There is tremendous interest in where and how our food is grown.

The production of fuel from basic food commodities is, in fact, unjustifiable.

Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.

Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit

Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food.

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

I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight: the right to know what's in their food, and how it was grown.

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

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

Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.

Because our agriculture is so spread out, that makes it vulnerable. Our food gets transported a number of times and very widely.

Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.