Communication Quote by Moshe Vardi

“The last few weeks had demonstrated that we were literally irreplaceable as workers, but any criminal incident turned the whole community into outlaws. A…

— Ray Ventura

“Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that’s no longer really about feeding anyone: in our own nation we export 1.1…

— Barbara Kingsolver

We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop.

— Ian Brown

The biggest container ship can carry fifteen thousand boxes. It can hold 746 million bananas, one for every European, on one ship.

— Rose George

Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

— Ralph Merkle

Buying from a local farmer can mean that he makes a two-hour extra truck drive, which can damage the environment more than a bunch…

— Tyler Cowen

“Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent ten thousand miles to China to be filleted,…

— Rose George

“By far the biggest expense in this process was shifting the cargo from land transport to ship at the port of departure and moving…

— Marc Levinson

It's difficult when you travel around America to get local food; it used to be very easy. You went from town to town and…

— Mark Kurlansky

When you buy bananas all you want is the fruit not the skin, but you have to pay for the skin also. It is…

— Shigeo Shingo

“The container is at the core of a highly automated system for moving goods from anywhere, to anywhere, with a minimum of cost and…

— Marc Levinson

They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers…

— Robert Toombs