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Food Quotes by Joel Salatin
- How many of us lobby for green energy or protected lands, but don't engage with the local bounty to lay by for tomorrow's unseasonal reality?…
- Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person…
- Don’t complain about being unable to afford high-quality local food when your grocery cart is full of beer, cigarettes, and People magazine.
- If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.
- It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.
- If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately,
- Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.
- If it doesn't rot, it's not real food.
- The notion that processed food is cheap and integrity foods are prohibitively expensive is simply not true.
- You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food.
- From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial…
- Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.
- Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.
- Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is…
- The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.
- You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.
- Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I'm…
- This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It…
- A farmer friend of mine told me recently about a busload of middle school children who came to his farm for a tour. The first…
- The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear…
- The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.
- Food security is not in the supermarket. It's not in the government. It's not at the emergency services division. True food security is the historical…
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- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman
- Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of… — Sai Baba
- Acorns were good until bread was found. — Francis Bacon
- The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. — Lucille Ball
- Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat,… — Antonio Banderas
- I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat. — Tyra Banks