Crap Quote by Michael Pollan

Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.

— Frances Moore Lappé

There's this about a farm: when the market's good there's money, and when it's bad there's food.

— Theodore Sturgeon

The chief problem of the low-income farmers is poverty.

— Nelson Rockefeller

The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.

— Nelson Rockefeller

The food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at Safeway; they're…

— Michael Pollan

By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty,…

— Janet Poppendieck

Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.

— Colonel Sanders

Go to the farmers market and buy food there. You'll get something that's delicious. It's discouraging that this seems like such an elitist thing.…

— Alice Waters

Working-class and poor urban Americans are not benefiting economically from our current food system. It relies too much on transportation, chemical fertilization, big use…

— Majora Carter

“We no longer have merely domestic issues. Perhaps the best illustration of this is the question I am asked everywhere in the world: “We…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We need to realize that these industrial methods of farming have gotten us used to cheap food. The corollary of cheap food is low…

— Raj Patel

High-quality seeds and agricultural inputs ensure farmers can produce enough food for everyone.

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield