- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food Quotes
Food as comfort, hardship, and honest confession.
This collection spans food's range, from the humiliation of accidentally poisoning a dinner guest to a genuine hardship of not having enough money for basic meals or clothes while starting out. For lighter, image-ready food lines, see Captions.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Big Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a big difference between industrializing production of tractors and industrializing production of food. We like technology, but we really like technology that allows us to do better what nature does itself.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. Start building up your larder! We don't even use that term any more.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.
- Farmer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food.
- Different Type
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- Nov 07, 2020
Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals and plants. Yet we have developed this necessity to grow food with chemical fertiliser because we have forgotten the magic of manure.
- Forward
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig and create soil disturbance, something it can't do in a concentrated feeding environment. The omnivore has historically been a salvage operation for food scraps around the homestead.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
So we got there at 6 a.m. We'd be shooting by 6:45. We wouldn't break for lunch, we'd just pass food around all day. And we would just rock and roll 'til 4, then Matty Libatique, our great cinematographer, would say, 'Outta light, guys' - and that was it.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020