Food Quote by Derrick Jensen

“Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity.”

— Bill Buford

“Around the lunch table everyone seems to have given something up---dairy, meat, gluten, sugar, carbs. Only in a land of plenty could people voluntarily…

— J.C. Carleson

“There are people who can afford to eat healthfully and there are people who cannot. I’d say that represents a fundamental brokenness of our…

— Michael Ruhlman

“Workers who pick the food we eat cannot afford to feed themselves.”

— Barry Estabrook

“Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“...In addition, there are millions of people in our world who are fortunate to have the availability of almost any food they like. I…

— Victoria Boutenko

“If efficiency were the only value in this life, then we would be content to eat bland but nutritious food every day--and the same…

— Alexander McCall Smith

An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“Why do we persist in giving away food when we know it fosters dependency?” “Because it’s easier!”

— Robert D. Lupton

“Unfortunately, food now matters even more than it should. Food is beyond a necessity; it’s also a commodity, and it has been reformulated to…

— Robert H. Lustig

“Instead of eating little, which will lead to economic contraction, people eat too much and then buy diet products – contributing to economic growth…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In this alternative economy of the true bread of life, we are turned inside out so that we are no longer people marked by…

— Tish Harrison Warren