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“We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate.” quote by Dan Barber — Download Open image

“We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate.”

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Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

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It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.

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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at…

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If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big picture.

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