Consumers Quote by Tyler Florence

The way to make the world a better place, through your eating, is simply to eat a bit less meat. Local is sometimes good,…

— Tyler Cowen

If people are prepared to eat locally and seasonally, then they probably do pretty well in terms of environmental impact.

— Peter Singer

Supporting local food production is so much healthier for people. It's better for the local economy, and it's a lot of fun.

— Jack Johnson

We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the…

— Michael Pollan

I think as individuals, people overrate the virtues of local food. Most of the energy consumption in our food system is not caused by…

— Tyler Cowen

The industrial food system ships in high-calorie, low-nutrient, processed food from thousands of miles away. It leaves us disconnected from our food and the…

— Kimbal Musk

Previous generations used to eat locally out of necessity. Without options like flash-freezing and worldwide export services, communities had to rely on local farms…

— Homaro Cantu

If people ate local and seasonal food they'd eat far better and cheaper foods and it would help farming in this country. There are…

— Gregg Wallace

We must go beyond organic, as it is currently defined in the National Organic Standards, and strive for food that is not only healthful…

— Kathleen Merrigan

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

— Ralph Merkle

Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

— Michael Pollan

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

— Michael Pollan