Accepting Quote by Hugh Hammond Bennett

Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our…

— Anonymous

It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.

— Irene Rosenfeld

Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we…

— Louise Fresco

In our society, growing food yourself has become the most radical of acts. It is truly the only effective protest, one that can-and will-overturn…

— Jules Dervaes

“We need to stop viewing our food as an industrial project and renew our view of it as a natural sustaining force.”

— Bill Bowling

As a population, if a large number of people make even small moves to eat less meat and more plant-based foods, the livestock industry…

— Nhat Hanh

Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.

— Billy Bragg

We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources:…

— Dan Barber

“Devoted though we must be to the conservation cause, I do not believe that any of us should give it all of our time…

— Edward Abbey

Now listen, the one thing about agriculture is we've lost our manufacturing, we've lost a great deal of jobs overseas, lots of our industry.…

— John Boozman

As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural--their…

— Edmund Burke