Agriculture Quote by Matthew Scully

The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.

— Hugh MacLennan

Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with…

— Matthew Scully

“A “tax or emission trading scheme on livestock,” they argued, “could be an economically sound policy that would modify consumer prices and affect consumption…

— Mark Schapiro

“Today farmers shift responsibility for their exploitation of animals to the general public, by speaking of 'consumer demand' for meat as if this technical…

— Brian Luke

To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of…

— Adam Smith

“To think of food as a weapon, or of a weapon as food, may give an illusory security and wealth to a few, but…

— Wendell Berry

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

— David F. Houston

“When the price of cattle, for example, rises so high that it is as profitable to cultivate land in order to raise food for…

— Adam Smith

We have to devise ways to lower the cost of production and reduce the risks involved in agriculture such as pests, pathogens, and weeds.

— M. S. Swaminathan

When a livestock farmer is willing to "practice complexity"-to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed to behave…

— Michael Pollan

“Agriculture is an honorable way to become poor”

— Ken Follett

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units, and accorded…

— Matthew Scully