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- Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we…
- Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.
- The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is…
- Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.
- Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.
- High-quality food is better for your health.
- People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.
- Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.
- Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup
- Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's made the fast…
- Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so…
- Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure…
- Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.
- Studies show that organically grown crops produce more of the things (ascorbic acid, lycopenes, resveratrol, flavonols in general, etc) that our bodies need and also…
- ...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that…
- In Joel's view, that reformation begins with people going o the trouble and expense of buying directly from farmers they know - "relationship marketing," as…
- The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.
- Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we…
- Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what…
- Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that restored the land.…
- In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not eaten by humans…
- Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere. And if it…
- Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit…
- The real food is not being advertised
- California's Proposition 37, which would require that genetically modified (G.M.) foods carry a label, has the potential to do just that - to change the…
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- Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops. — Margaret Atwood
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- 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
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- 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