Local Food Quotes

• Anybody interested in solving, rather than profiting from, the problems of food production and distribution will see that in the long run the safest food supply is a local food supply, not a supply that is dependent on a global economy. Nations and regions within nations must be left free and should be encouraged to develop the local food economies that best suit local needs and local conditions.

  Wendell Berry

  Running, Long, Suits

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.266, Counterpoint

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• We need to confront honestly the issue of scale... You may need a large corporation to run an airline or to manufacture cars, but you don't need a large corporation to raise a chicken or a hog. You don't need a large corporation to process local food or local timber and market it locally.

  Wendell Berry

  Running, Issues, Car

  Wendell Berry (2006). “The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays”, p.26, Counterpoint Press

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• Supporting local food production is so much healthier for people. It's better for the local economy, and it's a lot of fun.

  Jack Johnson

  Fun, People, Economy

  "Jack Johnson Interview | Nature, Biofuels, Sustainable Food, New Album, Love, etc". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.

  Sienna Miller

  Able, Towns, Walks

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• We also call for a healthy food system that prioritizes sustainable healthy local food production.

  Jill Stein

  Healthy, Prioritize, Food Production

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• I imagine a certain amount of consumer impulse will be replaced by community connection. You can already see it starting with things like the local food movement.

  Bill McKibben

  Community, Movement, Connections

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• I have a great love for cuisine, so Im always interested in local food, and there are so many interesting dishes, spices and ingredients in India.

  Romain Grosjean

  Interesting, Great Love, India

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• Don’t complain about being unable to afford high-quality local food when your grocery cart is full of beer, cigarettes, and People magazine.

  Joel Salatin

  Beer, People, Quality

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• Public charities, foodbanks and church pantries are doing more than ever before, but they can't keep up with the need. We can never end hunger only through the wonderful work of local charities. Like other Western democracies, we must end our national problem of hunger through national and political leadership. Charity is nice for some things, but not as a way to feed a nation. We don't protect our national security through charity, and we shouldn't protect our families and children that way either.

  Jeff Bridges

  Children, Nice, Inspiration

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• When I visit a country, I like to experience local food.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Country, Locals

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• The other way that you democratize the food movement is through the public school system. If you can pay enough for the school lunch system so that it can actually be cooked and not just microwaved, so that these schools can buy local food, fresh food, because right now it's all frozen and processed, you will improve the health of the students, you will improve the health of the local economy, and you will have better performing students.

  Michael Pollan

  School, Lunch, Frozen

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Let me say two things about the costs - one is that there are detailed studies that show this, this is what some of the Stanford studies show, in fact, that we get so healthier, so much more healthy, when we eliminate fossil fuel pollution - 200,000 [fewer] premature deaths a year for example. And that's just the death part of it. Not to mention the asthma part of it, the heart attacks and the strokes and the cancers. And we also call for a healthy food system that prioritizes sustainable healthy local food production.

  Jill Stein

  Cancer, Heart, Years

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• I love how Jamie Oliver makes seasonal, local foods in a rustic way, without a lot of fuss.

  Sara Ramirez

  Way, Jamie, Rustic

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• I am grateful for each and every food bank that helps families in need. Now, more than ever, hunger is a crisis in America, and yet it is not spoken enough and people have yet to give enough to help those in need. Local food banks help fill this need but they need our help, our support, and most importantly, our dollars. No one should ever go hungry.

  Marlee Matlin

  Thanksgiving, Grateful, America

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• Ordinary people have an extremely important role to play in fighting climate change. Not only can you make your home more energy efficient, drive less, and eat more local food - you can also tell your leaders to take climate action.

  Frances Beinecke

  Home, Fighting, Climate Action

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• I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

  Joel Stein

  Taken, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue.

  Tom Colicchio

  New York, Issues, Groups

  "Tom Colicchio on solving the hunger problem in America". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. February 28, 2013.

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• Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Relationship, Country, Husband

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.

  Joel Salatin

  Safety, Police, Wipe

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