Class Quote by Joseph Hume

I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.

— Joseph Hume

Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you…

— Joseph Hume

“Corn is at the core of modern agribusiness, the most important food crop in North America. In no other crop are the values of…

— Carol Deppe

Corn occupies a really special role in what I've been calling American agro-economics.

— Hope Jahren

Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it…

— George Washington

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

— Michael Pollan

The government will pay certain farmers to not grow corn. Wow. Where's my check? That'd be great. "Hey, what do you do for a…

— Brian Regan

I'm suggesting that criminalizing chemically fertilized grass in favor of unnaturally-fed corn is not a rational trade off.

— Joel Salatin

What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell.

— Mary Elizabeth Lease

I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.

— John Constable

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

— Joseph Hume

I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight: the right to know what's in their food, and how it…

— Joel Salatin