Agriculture Quotes - Page 18

• 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.

  Jon Tester

  Jobs, Giving, Quality

  "Tester Pitches Montana Beef As Taco Bell Alternative" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2011.

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• In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity.

  Dan Barber

  Understanding, Ingredients, Commodity

  Dan Barber (2014). “The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food”, p.120, Penguin

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• Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

  Dan Barber

  Needs, Alternatives, Looks

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• Net result [of the Dept. of Agriculture's Payment in Kind - PIK - program]: total farm income, now expected to be around $25 billion, this fiscal year, will exceed total federal subsidies by only a couple of billion. You could argue that those fellows out there on the fruited plain are in effect working for the federal government and that, therefore, the U.S. now has socialized agriculture under the Reagan Administration. Rich, eh?

  Daniel Seligman

  Couple, Years, Government

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• The ecological principle in agriculture is to connect the genius of the place, to fit the farming to the farm.

  Wendell Berry

  Principles, Genius, Fit

  "Wendell E. Berry Interview". Interview with Jim Leach, www.neh.gov. 2012.

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• American agriculture is badly in need of diversity. Another threat to the food system of course is the likelihood that petroleum is not going to get any cheaper.

  Wendell Berry

  Diversity, Needs, Threat

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• I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.

  Pawan Kalyan

  Land, Actors, Half

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• At President Obama's direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America's innovators and entrepreneurs to build a green energy economy.

  Tom Vilsack

  Work, America, Entrepreneur

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• Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sowing, Farming, Difficult

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• Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

  Brion James

  Cowboy, Play, California

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• Food movement organic food stores supplies health food products and facilitate with instrumental support in organic agriculture.

  Tony Benn

  Creativity, Support, Movement

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• In the days when the nation depended on agriculture for its wealth it made the Lord Chancellor sit on a woolsack to remind him where the wealth came from. I would like to suggest we remove that now and make him sit on a crate of machine tools.

  Prince Philip

  Tools, Machines, Wealth

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• The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the masses that they will throw their newly gained strength in the desired direction. In the present structure of society, this practice is inevitable. Whatever of social importance is done today, whether in politics, finance, manufacture, agriculture, charity, education, or other fields, must be done with the help of propaganda. Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

  Edward Bernays

  Powerful, Practice, Government

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• One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn't any more available.

  Stephen Hawking

  Ocean, Dark, Night

  "The 11th Hour". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere growing

  David Miliband

  Zero, Atmosphere, Needs

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• Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues

  Jim Hightower

  Nature, Pesticides, Fairness

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• The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

  Michael Pollan

  Subsidies, Poverty, Obesity

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• The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.

  Bill Mollison

  India, Poison, Use

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• It is vitally important that we can continue to say, with absolute conviction, that organic farming delivers the highest quality, best-tasting food, produced without artificial chemicals or genetic modification, and with respect for animal welfare and the environment, while helping to maintain the landscape and rural communities.

  Prince Charles

  Animal, Community, Environmental

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• Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time, organic agriculture is proving to be a serious contender in modern farming and a more environmentally sustainable system over the long term.

  David Suzuki

  Practice, Long, Environmental

  David Suzuki, David Taylor (2009). “The Big Picture: Reflections on Science, Humanity, and a Quickly Changing Planet”, p.184, Greystone Books

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• The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles.

  Kent V. Flannery

  Food, Cooking, Principles

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• Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

  Plutarch

  Teacher, Nature, Men

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• Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social service.

  Patch Adams

  Art, Cancer, Health

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• The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some circles than the idea of simple farming as the best way of life. Many of the new primitives regard the beginnings of agriculture as one of humanity's major steps in the wrong direction. Most of the people who are drawn to such ideas do their actual hunting and gathering in grocery stores, but the *feeling* is there; it takes the form of a religion...expressed by particpating in American Indian rituals - or primitive-style rituals that are created anew.

  Walter Truett Anderson

  Hunting, Simple, Circles

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• To me, one of the easiest ways of addressing climate change and potentially remedying climate change is to stop subsidizing animal agriculture.

  Moby

  Animal, Climate, Way

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