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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.
- Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.
- Are we, finally, speaking of nature or culture when we speak of a rose (nature), that has been bred (culture) so that its blossoms (nature)…
- 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
- American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others: Since…
- For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories…
- 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…
- 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…
- America ships tons of sugar cookies to Denmark and Denmark ships tons of sugar cookies to America. Wouldn't it be more efficient just to swap…
- 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…
- Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it's one of the most powerful things an…
- It's more important that you eat vegetables, even if they are conventional -- I'm talking about for your health -- then it is until you…
- For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and…
- My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.
- Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
- When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery…
- While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of…
- But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those…
- Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens…
- You may not think you eat a lot of corn and soybeans, but you do: 75 percent of the vegetable oils in your diet come…
- ...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle