There are lots of bad things that can happen to a food…

“The consumer, that is to say, must be kept from discovering that, in the food industry—as in any other industry—the overriding concerns are not…

— Wendell Berry

Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters, however, are…

— Wendell Berry

The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing…

— Michael Pollan

Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few…

— Lester R. Brown

Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy policy. Because…

— Wendell Berry

That we should have an agriculture based as much on petroleum as the soil-that we need petroleum exactly as much as we need food…

— Wendell Berry

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

— Wendell Berry

“Dad's oil dehydrator was a contained electrostatic field, one electrode down the center, the other the container's inner wall. Principal problem was finding a…

— John Cage

The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual…

— Russell Kirk

Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25 years ago),…

— Matthew Simmons

The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been…

— Fred Hoyle

I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets out with…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.”

— Christopher Hitchens

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you…

— Dick Gregory

I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two…

— Noam Chomsky