Quotes About Agriculture

Of course I grew it in a fucking tank! What do you think I am, a farmer?

When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.

Missouri agriculture has a bright future, and you can see that in action through our FFA members.

We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.

Genetically modified foods are good.

Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.

For consumers, the lesson is simple: Genetically modified foods are safe to eat.

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

I don't have money. Monsanto has money.

Mali exists mostly to itself. Few people go there. Few Malians leave. Most of Mali's 13 million people live, and seem to live quite happily, off the rice, corn and millet they grow and the long-horn cattle and goats they keep.

Non lessi la prima estate, zappai fagioli

Capital, it must be remembered, maintains a war more than forced contributions. Farmers

As societies switched from foraging to agriculture ten thousand years ago, the average height for both men and women shrank by about six inches, and there's ample evidence of parasites, disease, and childhood malnutrition. Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, called the adoption of agriculture "the worst mistake in the history of the human race.

Only when we began to eat cereals at the start of the agricultural revolution, and most especially when our ancestral food choices were displaced by the 'displacing foods of modern commerce', did the 'modern diseases of lifestyle' begin to emerge in ever-increasing numbers.

Another cost of adopting a cereal-based diet may be that human brain size has decreased progressively in the past 10 000 years. The decline began at precisely the moment when humans began to raise their children on cereals and grains and less animal produce.

The average yard is both an ecological and agricultural desert. The prime offender is short-mown grass, which offers no habitat and nothing for people except a place to sit, yet sucks down far more water and chemicals than a comparable amount of farmland.

Drinks have had a closer connection to the flow of history than is generally acknowledged, and a greater influence on its course. Understanding the ramifications of who drank what, and why, and where they got it from, requires the traversal of many disparate and otherwise unrelated fields: the histories of agriculture, philosophy, religion, medicine, technology, and commerce.

Dental remains show that farmers suffered from tooth decay, unheard of in hunter-gatherers, because the carbohydrates in the farmers' cereal-heavy diets were reduced to sugars by enzymes in their saliva as they chewed.

Farming may have been prompted by social competition, as rival groups competed to host the most lavish feasts; this might explain why, in some parts of the world, luxury foods appear to have been domesticated before staples.

The cows hovered over the mountain Creating a huge pooping fountain

Where was the lecture on how slavery alone catapulted the whole country from agriculture into the industrial age in two decades? White folks' hatred, their violence, was the gasoline that kept the profit motors running.

country that doesn't grow its own wine grapes has no claim to civilisation.

But the real impetus behind dividing California came from the fact that the state was truly two, and perhaps even four, distinct places: the urbanizing Bay Area and the mining districts; the Far North (one breakaway effort had called for the creation of the state of Shasta in that region); the Central Valley; and a sparsely settled Southern California, significantly Mexican, where ranch life and agriculture predominated.

The Indian peasant is the world's champion shitter. Stacks of chappaties and mounds of mustard leaf-mash down the hatch twice a day; stacks of shit a.m. and p.m.