It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either. — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests. It's hard to overstate the destruction. Ninety percent of large fish, the ones we love - the tunas, the halibuts, the salmons, swordfish - they've collapsed. — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
People complain that cities don't have fresh, sustainable food, but it's just not true. — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
In food, issues that surround purchasing and that whole realm have a very political component and they branch into stories that can be really… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals. — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either. — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
“modern agriculture has thoroughly separated the agri from the culture. They’ve killed the meaning of the word—bifurcated it, completely, in just the last thirty… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big picture. — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
“of some nutrients than we need in an attempt to get enough of others to meet our basic nutritional requirements,” Ikerd once said. “The… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources:… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
“With few ingrained food habits, Americans are among the least tradition-bound of food cultures, easily swayed by fashions and influences from other countries.” — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
