Quotes About Agriculture

The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.

When you cook, you get to shop. You get to vote if you want the pastured raised pork or the organic grain. You can get to help produce your agricultural system, and you give that up when you outsource your cooking. You become dependent on what's offered - and that's a shame.

We in America have gotten addicted to cheap food. The result of that is antibiotic-laden fish, foods that are bred to be portable.

If you're eating grassland meat, your carbon footprint is light and possibly even negative.

I worked in rose fields, and I worked in potato fields. I did some bouncing.

I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton.

We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop.

I can't see potato chips being popular where there's not land to grow potatoes in or where frying in lots of oil isn't easy or convenient.

The Modi government says the farm laws will open agriculture to the corporate world. Who says this not already open to corporate sector? In Punjab, we have Pepsi and ITC buying potatoes. All my kinnows from Hoshiarpur and Ferozepur are going to Chennai. The system is already open.

People enjoy our meat and our poultry, as I do as a consumer.

Our cattle, poultry and fish should not be exposed to antibiotics or hormones that will be harmful to their human consumers.

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.

Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.

I'm from San Bernardino, California. It's, like, all cows and dairies and very open.

I grew up cleaning stalls and milking cows.

Cows and other livestock account for roughly one-sixth of all greenhouse-gas emissions, and as a general point, eating meat means taxing the Earth.

Before trying my hand at acting, I use to cultivate my own land with my father.

Agricultural products ranging from citrus and dairy to beef and chicken face stifling tariffs or nontariff barriers in many countries around the world.

Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves and nothing more. Why? Because of the systems: The markets are not there to go beyond.

Fancy GPS systems and space-age tractors are what most excite the farmers I know and astound their city friends.

Brexit, for all its likely harms, represents an opportunity to pay landowners and tenants to do something completely different, rather than spending yet more public money on trashing our life-support systems.

When I was agriculture minister, we drafted specific policies to tackle the agrarian crisis.

Montana's ranchers raise the best cattle in the world. If Taco Bell needs to beef up, they can give their customers the highest quality meat around by using Montana beef, and in the process, supporting agriculture jobs in Montana.

The emphasis of my government is to take advantage from the Chinese experience in the fields of agriculture, fisheries, energy, infrastructure, development, health and high efficiency irrigation.