Chains Quote by Anna Lappe

I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

— Alice Waters

Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the…

— David Ricardo

“WE HAVE ALREADY seen some of the harmful results of arbitrary governmental efforts to raise the price of favored commodities. The same sort of…

— Henry Hazlitt

Businesses generally deal with minimum wage increases by finding efficiencies in their business practices or slightly increasing prices if they have to, not cutting…

— David Rolf

We need to realize that these industrial methods of farming have gotten us used to cheap food. The corollary of cheap food is low…

— Raj Patel

What we have is a pay structure that, on basic wages, is higher than market rate, as a general statement. When you look at…

— Steven Burd

Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part…

— Nick Hanauer

But it is clear that the price of labour has no necessary connection with the price of food, since it depends entirely on the…

— David Ricardo

You can pay certain people more money and stuff but that's just going to be a transfer from one group to another. The only…

— Charles Koch

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

— David F. Houston

A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces…

— David Ricardo

In raising the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates in the same manner as simple interest does in the accumulation of debt.…

— Adam Smith