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• Nature abhors a garden.
• Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or…
• Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
• There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in…
• 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.
• You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.
• I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not
• Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.
• The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.
• A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
• The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.
• The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The…

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