The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think its… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are more obese people in the world than starving people. As China and India start to develop our eating habits -… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against… — G. William Domhoff Copy Share Image
“The word agriculture, after all, does not mean "agriscience," much less "agribusiness." It means "cultivation of land." And cultivation is at the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Agribusiness and food processing are important parts of modernizing our economy, of modernizing our agriculture and moving into a phase where a… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Our food chain is in crisis. Big agribusiness has made profits more important than your health—more important than the environment—more important than… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
Colombia was a big wheat producer in the 1950's. That was eliminated by what sounds like a nice plan, called "Food for… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The US does not observe the free-trade principles. Those are for the weak. So agribusiness is highly subsidized and pours product into… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire family… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn feeds the chicken and the pig, the turkey, and the lamb,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We're still promoting stupid wasteful behavior in agribusiness - everything from ethanol production for cars to genetically modified crops. In commerce just… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Undercover investigations threw back the curtain on the systemic exploitation of animals on factory farms. The response by agribusiness interests has been… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
