Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of…

Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken factories forced…

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops…

— Wendell Berry

I wish for recycling to become a major industrial agriculture.

— Tishuan Scott

Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.

— David Holmgren

I’ve been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can’t invent a…

— Wendell Berry

“Ecologically, bourgeois exploitation and manipulation are undermining the very capacity of the earth to sustain advanced forms of life. The crisis is being heightened…

— Murray Bookchin

Those concerns of a national character-such as air and water pollution that do not respect state boundaries, or the national transportation system, or efforts…

— Ronald Reagan

If we could begin to look at water pollution as a human rights violation, and we could begin to look at criminal aspects of…

— Erin Brockovich

Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental…

— Prince Charles

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of…

— Jeff Goodell

It is often difficult to definitively link a specific instance of disease to one particular cause, like water pollution. Even when tests show that…

— Charles Duhigg

Way back in 2000, the EPA was poised, and, in fact, had drafted a rule, to specially regulate pollution - water pollution and other…

— Charles Duhigg

We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put…

— Ronald Reagan

My father gave me this poster from National Geographic back in the very early 70s, so I was a young teenager. It showed how…

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

“Globalized industrialized food is not cheap: it is too costly for the Earth, for the farmers, for our health. The Earth can no longer…

— Vandana Shiva