Battle Quote by Chrystia Freeland

“The city-bred who look down on primitives are now turning to organic lifestyles.”

— Tapan Ghosh

Urban farming appeals to people on the right and the left. People have different reasons for getting into it. Some people are like doomsdayers,…

— Novella Carpenter

When you meet the farmers and go to the farms, you see that they treat their animals like they're family. It makes a big…

— David Chang

“We have let the factory farm replace farming for the same reasons our cultures have relegated minorities to being second-class members of society and…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and…

— George Bernard Shaw

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

— Henry David Thoreau

Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig.

— Joel Salatin

People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of…

— Al Franken

[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots…

— Greg Peterson

I guess the big thing to say about 'Pig Farm' is that none of us knows if it works, and we're going in blind.…

— Denis O'Hare

Farmers are philosophical; they have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. But there is another angle to…

— Ruth Stout

I grew up in Appalachia, and I've seen people milk cows and slaughter pigs and plow with a big-footed horse. It's not like I…

— Conchata Ferrell