Farming Quotes - Page 7

• The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for cruelty to our own kind.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Sacrifice, Patterns, Kind

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• Because of the industrialization of agriculture -- using massive amounts of fossil fuel -- only 2 percent of Americans work in farming. And yet they produce enough food to feed all 300 million Americans, with plenty left over for export. When are liberals going to break the news to their friends in Darfur that they all have to starve to death to save the planet?

  Ann Coulter

  Agriculture, Industrialization, News

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• You need bad things to make good things. It’s like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.

  Mike Watt

  Needs, Want, Good Things

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• I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings. And I just couldn't disconnect myself from it any longer. I read books like 'Diet for a New America' and saw documentaries like 'Earthlings' and 'Meet your Meat,' and it became an easy choice for me.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Book, Animal, America

  "Why Ellen Went Vegan". www.peta.org. November 09, 2009.

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• Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.

  Scott Baio

  Magic, Wands, Knows

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm very familiar with the importance of dairy farming in Wisconsin. I've spent the night on a dairy farm here in Wisconsin. If I'm entrusted with the presidency, you'll have someone who is very familiar with what the Wisconsin dairy industry is all about.

  Al Gore

  Night, Wisconsin, Dairy

  "Chatter at 40,000 Feet" by Howard Kurtz, www.washingtonpost.com. June 15, 2000.

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• I make a lot of money. I can take a pay cut. All my friends are taking pay cuts that are in the unions, that are - that are farming in Alabama or whatever it is. I can surely take a pay cut, too, not cutting down my show or - or the people that work for me, I can take a pay cut.

  Kid Rock

  Cutting, People, Unions

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• Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country on earth, the most human scenario for farmers is likely to be feeding those who live nearby-if international markets would allow them to do it. Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that's no longer really about feeding anyone ... If you care about farmers, let the potatoes stay home.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Country, Children, Kindness

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• Factory farming is terrible for the environment—not to mention that it's gross. The best thing you can do, if you think about it, is to become a vegetarian and just spread the word. The world would change for the better for animals, humans, and the planet if everyone took that step.

  Christofer Drew

  Thinking, Animal, World

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• The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby gorilla at the zoo, or by threats to endangered species; but developments in farming techniques that deprive millions of animals of freedom of movement go unreported.

  Peter Singer

  Baby, Zoos, Animal

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously. I shall never forget the vehemence of the reaction.. much of it coming from the sort of people who regard agriculture as an industrial process, with production as the sole yardstick of success.

  Prince Charles

  Taken, Years, Agriculture

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• Nobody is going to invest a fortune into good orchard land, all the farming equipment necessary, the fertilizer, the seedlings, the nonstop Herculean work effort needed to grow apples, then bring them to the fruit stand for people to take home for free.

  Ted Nugent

  Home, Land, Apples

  "Ted Nugent Interview: Our First American Rock and Roll President?". Interview with Ray Shasho, www.classicrockmusicwriter.com. August 4, 2013.

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• Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Shopping, Bored, Buying

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• With the farming of a verse
  Make a vineyard of the curse

  W. H. Auden

  Poetry, Vineyards, Curse

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.150, DEBOLS!LLO

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• Increasingly, we will be faced with a choice: whether to keep the oceans for wild fish or farmed fish. Farming domesticated species in close proximity with wild fish will mean that domesticated fish always win. Nobody in the world of policy appears to be asking what is best for society, wild fish or farmed fish. And what sort of farmed fish, anyway? Were this question to be asked, and answered honestly, we might find that our interests lay in prioritizing wild fish and making their ecosystems more productive by leaving them alone enough of the time.

  Charles Clover

  Ocean, Mean, Winning

  Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.313, Univ of California Press

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• Outlaw embryo farming, but allow using surplus embryos.

  Mitt Romney

  Outlaw, Embryos, Surplus

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• Albania in 1994 was the strangest place I've ever seen. It was like walking into the looking glass: falling apart, paranoid people, anarchy, no one farming, full of thieves. It was beyond any Third World country. They were living in their own private nightmare.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, Fall, Glasses

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The Norfolk people are quick and smart in their motions and their speaking. Very neat and trim in all their farming concerns and very skilful. Their land is good, their roads are level, and the bottom of their soil is dry, to be sure; and these are great advantages; but they are diligent and make the most of everything.

  William Cobbett

  Smart, Land, People

  William Cobbett, James Paul Cobbett (1853). “Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey ... [etc.] in the Years 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825, 1826, 1829, 1830 and 1832, with Economical and Political Observations Relative to Matters Applicable To, and Illustrated By, the State of Those Counties Respectively”, p.53

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• I like to hunt. After baseball, I'll go back and buy some land and do some farming.

  Jeremy Bonderman

  Baseball, Land, Hunts

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• A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality.

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Baby, Littles, Deals

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• I stopped eating beef in high school, and in college I stopped eating poultry. I am not a huge fan of factory farming and what we're doing to animals. I try to eat as clean as possible because I want to know what I'm putting into my body.

  Susanna Thompson

  School, College, Animal

  "Susanna Thompson: ‘Arrow’ Star Talks Career And Staying Young". Interview with Shelley Emling, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.

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• And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny.

  George McGovern

  Hard Work, Land, Lines

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• Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted, picked, or harvested by a farm worker. Why is it that the people who do the most sacred work in our nation are the most oppressed, the most exploited?

  Dolores Huerta

  Lunch, People, Breakfast

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• Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.

  Stewart Brand

  Environmental, World, Poverty

  Stewart Brand (2010). “Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary”, p.41, Penguin

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• There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].

  Thein Sein

  Race, British, Burma

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