"They will grow, deliver, and cook your food……" — Wendell Berry
"They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they do not yet offer to insert it, pre-chewed, into your mouth is only because they have found no profitable way to do so."
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Wendell Berry
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