Farms Quotes - Page 32

• According to the 'food waste pyramid', ensuring that food is eaten by people is the top priority. Failing that, the next best thing is to feed it to farm animals.

  Tristram Stuart

  Animal, Pyramids, People

  "Food redistribution is a win-win solution for food waste" by Tristram Stuart, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2012.

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• The way an old dog finds his way back over miles and miles to his home when somebody trues to shove him off on a farm someplace, that is how I find my way back to the library. It's my place, even more than my place is.

  Chris Lynch

  Dog, Book, Home

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• Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

  James Wright

  Lying, Islands, Hammocks

  James Wright (2011). “The Branch Will Not Break: Poems”, p.16, Wesleyan University Press

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• I bought an ant farm. I don't know where I am going to get a tractor that small!

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Gardening, Ants

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• I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.

  Jim Davis

  Children, Heart, Boys

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• Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm

  Don Marquis

  New York, People, Trying

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• What?s wrong about eating cows? What do you think god made them for? Their big, their stupid, their delicious. You want more reasons? I never met an animal more prepared to die than a cow. Next time you go to the farm look at a cow in the eyes, it is begging you for a bullet.

  Paul Rodriguez

  Stupid, Eye, Thinking

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• In my 20s, my mom and I went and saw the bridges of Madison County, which are in Iowa, and I had seen that movie with Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. I've always done these Iowa road trips. I did this transcendental meditation course in Fairfield, Iowa. So I've known since my early 20s that someday I would buy a farm in Iowa.

  Lissie

  Mom, Iowa, Bridges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Quite frankly, the bible is filled with advice that you'd never, want to follow. "Don't cut your hair on a rainy Thursday because locusts will eat your farm" kind of thing.

  David O. Russell

  Cutting, Hair, Advice

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented the third space. It's not work, it's not home. That's one of the engines of its spread. But at the same time he was doing that, he bet the farm to open more and more stores in any given town, and making it ubiquitous made it much easier to say to your friend, I'll meet you at Starbucks.

  Seth Godin

  Home, Space, Decision

  "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• The performance group The Ant Farm redoing JFK's assassination in Dallas was an event that struck a chord with me, especially when one of the members said they'd only intended to do it once, but the Dallas audience insisted they repeat the performance.

  Laura Mullen

  Dallas, Groups, Events

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For just a few dollars registration, you got temporary possession of a good piece of land. Live on it for five years, build a house, and farm it, and it was yours. What a brilliant economic stimulus!

  Charles R. Morris

  Years, Land, House

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• I had to drive to Minneapolis once, and went on a back road just to see the country. But there was nothing to see. It's just flat and hot, and full of corn and soybeans and hogs. Every once in a while you come across a farm or some dead little town where the liveliest thing is the flies.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Soybeans, Littles

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.5, VNR AG

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• I watched American TV shows: Starsky & Hutch, Dallas, Rockford Files, Bonanza. And for many summers growing up, I worked on my aunt and uncle's farm in East Anglia. Down the street was an American cemetery for the Second World War, and every Memorial Day an American bomber would fly over that cemetery and drop rose petals.

  Scott Raab

  Summer, Memorial Day, Uncles

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• In my very first term there was an issue that brought us [George Mitchell, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd] together in a very deep, emotional, and personal level.It was called 'spousal impoverishment' and it meant that for one person [to go into] a nursing home, the family [ ], could go near bankruptcy, and then they'd end up with a lien on the family farm or the home. And so I wanted to change that.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Home, Nursing, Emotional

  Source: digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu

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• When you go into a fast food restaurant, you may just think about how good your meal tastes while you're eating it. But you're not thinking about all the consequences that come from that one purchase - the consequences for your body, the consequences for supporting this company and how it's treating it workers, all the way back to the farm where the potatoes were grown, or the ranch where the cattle were raised.

  Eric Schlosser

  Thinking, Meals, Body

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I've written about illegal immigrants in the United States; I spent a year following migrant farm workers as they were harvesting. I've written about our criminal justice system, and how it treats the victims of crime. I've been working for years now on a book about prisons in America, and I've been going into prisons and traveling around the country and seeing what's going on.

  Eric Schlosser

  Country, Book, Years

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There's also a growing trend toward having gardens in schools to literally show kids where food comes from by having them grow and prepare their own food. There's also a movement that's bringing farmers into schools and creating relationships between local farms and local cafeterias, so that instead of frozen mystery meat, you have fresh produce that's coming from the area that has a name and a face associated with it.

  Eric Schlosser

  School, Kids, Garden

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I grew up spending time at my grandmother's farm in Germany and she lived a few kilometers away from the border between east and west Germany. It was so strange that roads which used to connect two towns now ended in the middle.

  Matthea Harvey

  Grandmother, West Germany, Two

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Cows that are fed organic food are still kept as slaves on farms, regardless of whether it is a large corporate factory farm or a small family farm. Besides, every dairy cow, no matter what she has been fed, has her babies stolen from her shortly after birth and she will inevitably end up in the slaughterhouse.

  Sharon Gannon

  Baby, Cows, Matter

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Farms, whether small or large, are places where slaves are kept. The animals are fattened up to be eaten, or exploited for their ability to make honey or milk, or for their fur, wool or body parts; they are kept as breeders to produce more animals who can in turn be exploited and ultimately sold, slaughtered, and eaten.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Wool, Fur

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• It is true that every being is enjoying life or suffering as a direct result of his or her own past actions. The animals in the factory farms may have been meat-eating human beings in a previous birth; we don't know, and it is not our place to judge.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Past, Meat Eating

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• It was mainly a growing farm, although we did have chickens and a few animals, but I did help to some degree with that. I have to say that it was not my favorite association.I did what I was asked to do.

  Paul Smith

  Animal, Association, Degrees

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• Not everyone can or will love you. You could run a cotton candy and unicorn farm and someone's gonna think you're an asshole. Everyone's fighting their own battle and it often has nothing to do with you.

  Kathryn Budig

  Running, Love You, Fighting

  ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My parents were exclude from rights as farm workers, though that has to change.

  Julia Serano

  Change, Rights, Parent

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