Costs Quote by Joel Salatin Download Open image “The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes.” — Joel Salatin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Costs Diabetes Food Obesity System
The industrial food system ships in high-calorie, low-nutrient, processed food from thousands of miles away. It leaves us disconnected from our food and the… — Kimbal Musk Copy Share Image
The prices of really unhealthy food are kept artificially low, and that contributes to obesity. — Lori Silverbush Copy Share Image
...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
While the surfeit of cheap calories that the U.S. food system has produced since the late 1970s may have taken food prices off the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The point is that the overwhelming energy cost associated with food is not in the food itself (the 2,000 food calories a day per… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our health; in America, one third of… — Ellen Gustafson Copy Share Image
“The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account for three… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Artificial feeding requires medical services to be nearby. In much of the world, access to medical care is scarce and services overstretched.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
So why is a third of our world battling obesity and spending huge sums to burn off excess calories, while the other two-thirds yearn… — Wess Stafford Copy Share Image
Junk food being cheap and gym memberships being expensive are the reasons why we are getting fat. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on health care… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago persuasively argue that one of the biggest reasons for the nation's current… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Read things you're sure will disagree with your current thinking. If you're a die-hard anti-animal person, read Meat. If you're a die-hard global warming… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented,… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Instead of buying into the global agenda, which is using food as just industrial stuff, we would say we view food as biological, a… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist-lunatic. It's a humorous way for me to describe that I'm not stereotypical. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Think of all the mesquite in Texas, the pinyon pines, the acorns in Appalachia, every place has the possibility of mass production. It's an… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
Our culture doesn't ask about preserving the essence of pig; it just asks how can we grow them faster, fatter, bigger, and cheaper. We… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income. — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives. — Tim Walberg Copy Share Image
One little mistake at the highest level costs you a fight, which I've learned. — Jimi Manuwa Copy Share Image
To protect our country's economic future and the health and well being of all Americans, we must find a way to rein in out-of-control… — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the… — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
Health insurance costs in the United States are on an unsustainable path. I've heard from hundreds of Montanans who are paying thousands of dollars… — Matt Rosendale Copy Share Image
Companies are recognizing that paid leave reduces training and turnover costs, that it's a formula for recruiting and retaining good workers. — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Issues of energy, climate change, nuclear arms control and non-proliferation are all big deals. These are problems that we have to get right globally,… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you. — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
Employers are as sensitive to housing costs as their employees, which is why, when we build more houses, we create more jobs. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
