Cattle Quote by Michael Pollan

“Farming, I discovered, is a great and ongoing war. The farmers are continually fighting to keep nature behind the hedgerow, and nature is continually…

— Kristin Kimball

See the long view: By all means "plant the corn, milk the cows, and feed the horses" but always keep the eventual "harvest" in…

— Warren G. Bennis

“There is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.”

— Michael Pollan

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

“They said this would be the last year for corn. It needed too many fertilizers, and the oil to make them—the oil to make…

— Jeri Smith-Ready

“Corn might be the epidemic that kills us, but I've always loved staring at a big field of it, perfectly planted.”

— Nickolas Butler

The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat

— John McNulty

“The tractor’s arrival had signaled, among other things, agriculture’s shift from an almost exclusive dependence on free solar energy to a total dependence on…

— Wendell Berry

“How this peculiar grass, native to Central America and unknown to the Old World before 1492, came to colonize so much of our land…

— Michael Pollan

“Get grass-fed animal foods. Cattle are grass-eating animals by nature.”

— Deborah Kesten

“re: the US agriculture industry: " This puts us in the odd position of consuming fossil fuels --geologically one of the rarest and most…

— David R. Montgomery

“Despite what the commercial of a happy, skinny woman walking through a field with a bowl of whole-grain cereal at sunrise would like you…

— Liz Wolfe