Farming Quotes

177 quotes by 140 authors

If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half. — Nina Fedoroff
The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time. — E. W. Howe
Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of… — Ellsworth Huntington
Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the… — Joan Jett
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. — Pope John XXIII
The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who… — Robert Mugabe
I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals. — Kevin Nealon
If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things… — Larry Page
I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along… — Rick Perry
I make a lot of money. I can take a pay cut. All my friends are taking pay cuts that are in the unions, that… — Kid Rock
My family has spent 400 years farming on the banks of the Rio Grande. We know the value of hard work, love of the community,… — Ken Salazar
I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense… — Peter Singer
I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature. — Peter Singer
I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina. — Skeet Ulrich
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine… — Tom Vilsack
President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state,… — Tom Vilsack
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. — Elwyn Brooks White
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a… — John Greenleaf Whittier
I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it… — Fuzzy Zoeller

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