Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine…

The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because it creates…

— Vandana Shiva

Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath…

— David James Duncan

The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think it’s time we…

— Vandana Shiva

Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field.

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr

Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan's…

— Noam Chomsky

There are more obese people in the world than starving people. As China and India start to develop our eating habits - and not…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the…

— Mark Bittman

Agribusiness - with its wicked powerful lobby and its infiltration of top bureaucratic posts - essentially runs roughshod over the government agencies that are…

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against the American…

— G. William Domhoff

“The word agriculture, after all, does not mean "agriscience," much less "agribusiness." It means "cultivation of land." And cultivation is at the root of…

— Wendell Berry

Agribusiness and food processing are important parts of modernizing our economy, of modernizing our agriculture and moving into a phase where a more modernized…

— Manmohan Singh

Agribusinesses should never dictate the quality of school meals.

— Jared Polis

The response by agribusiness interests has been to back laws that ban animal advocates from taking pictures or videos at these facilities, and ban…

— Wayne Pacelle

Our food chain is in crisis. Big agribusiness has made profits more important than your health—more important than the environment—more important than your right…

— John Robbins

Colombia was a big wheat producer in the 1950's. That was eliminated by what sounds like a nice plan, called "Food for Peace. "…

— Noam Chomsky