Agriculture Quote by Michael Pollan

“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

When you have weird policy decisions in the United States that then ripple out throughout the world, the rest of the world really takes…

— Raj Patel

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving…

— Bill Gates

Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure…

— Michael Pollan

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

The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds as ideals…

— Calvin Coolidge

We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - where a kernel of corn is…

— Tom Vilsack

Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start…

— Jonathan Sacks

The poverty line understates the true amount of poverty because it measures it as three times the breadbasket that a family needs, but it…

— Robert Reich

Pack snacks. Food prices once you pass through airport security or within blocks of a major tourist attraction can be double the price. Pack…

— Gillian Tans

If commodity prices are no longer going up then food prices in the grocery store will no longer go up, at some point.

— Matt Martin

When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of…

— Ban Ki-moon