Farmers Quote by Eric Schlosser Download Open image “The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.” — Eric Schlosser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Farmers Inmates Prison Prison Inmates States United United states
I have not worked with farmers. I have not worked with prisoners. I have only worked with human beings. I didn't see anybody as… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth. — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door. — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
“Even beyond private prison companies, a whole range of prison profiteers must be reckoned with if mass incarceration is to be undone, including phone… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The prison-industrial complex employs millions of people directly and indirectly. Judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, prison guards, construction companies that build prisons, police, probation officers,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Farmers in America ... are pretty large in general. Their farms are also large. But farmers in the rest of the world are quite… — Ellen Gustafson Copy Share Image
If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed in the… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
“(American farmers are four times more likely to commit suicide than the general population.)” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making criminals, it's that it's… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
So for everything I do, I'm very clear about what I'm doing, and I tell people what it's about. They get a sense of… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
“The medical literature on the causes of food poisoning is full of euphemisms and dry scientific terms: coliform levels, aerobic plate counts, sorbitol, MacConkey… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Very few people realize that the U.S. government does not have the power to order the recall of contaminated meat. — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross. — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins. — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
The current fast food that we have is inexpensive when you buy it, but the long-term costs of eating it and the long-term costs… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
“The cable and the X-unit both had female plugs. Somehow the cable had been installed backward. It would take a couple of days to… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home. Today about… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money… — Laurance Labadie Copy Share Image
Im a farmer. I always will be a farmer. When I die, Ill be a farmer. Its something that Ive wanted to do since… — Jon Tester Copy Share Image
I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money. — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
It's a pleasure to talk to the farmers. That's my favorite part, always was. It's really the communication and exchange that builds communities. It's… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
In most agencies, account executives outnumber the copywriters two to one. If you were a dairy farmer, would you employ twice as many milkers… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best thing for you to do is shop at your local farmer's market and support the organic growers who are there. Because those… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the objects of… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Genetic engineering is having a serious impact on the food we eat, on the environment, and on farmers. To ensure we can maximize benefits… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
