Food Chain Quotes

• It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Ocean, Sea, Law

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

  Mike Johanns

  Safety, Chains, Food Safety

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• At either end of any food chain you find a biological system-a patch of soil, a human body-and the health of one is connected-literally-to the health of the other.

  Michael Pollan

  Land, Body, Soil

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by green plants and stored in the form of complex carbon molecules. A food chain is a system for passing those calories on to species that lack the pant's unique ability to synthesize them from sunlight.

  Michael Pollan

  Unique, Green Plants, Competition

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• I take my part in the food chain very seriously.

  Dominique Swain

  Chains

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

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• I did not climb to the top of the food chain to eat carrots.

  Ron White

  Bumper Sticker, Carrots, Chains

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• I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.

  Erma Bombeck

  Fighting, Way, Vegetarian

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• By nature, we are a plant-based intelligence - not just our exhale, which plants inhale, but they are my food chain. They are my medicine. I cannot live without plants. They are part of my life support. And this is why plant species need to be preserved.

  Horst Rechelbacher

  Medicine, Support, Needs

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.

  Len Wein

  Editors, Vision, Stories

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• With our lives and food chain set up to make us fat - I mean, you can't drive down any highway in America and find a grapefruit - a guy needs to be smarter and more determined to get lean.

  David Zinczenko

  Mean, America, Guy

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• If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

  Carl Safina

  Ocean, Science, Creating

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• When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Dancer, Chains, Bottom

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• Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.

  Jeff Goodell

  Ocean, Mean, Australia

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• In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Keys, Mcdonalds

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• If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'

  Eric Alterman

  Baseball, Team, Years

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• The penguin doesn't know it's cute, and the leopard seal doesn't know it's kind of big and monstrous. This is just the food chain unfolding.

  Paul Nicklen

  Cute, Leopards, Penguins

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• First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

  Neil LaBute

  Men, Feminist, Feminism

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• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  B. D. Wong

  Jobs, Order, Issues

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• The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.

  Joel Salatin

  Forks, Chains, Raw Food

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• War will exist as long as there's a food chain.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, Long, Chains

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.13, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain

  Peter Benchley

  Ocean, Sharks, Predator

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• The biggest danger we face is overfishing. We literally could fish out our oceans, some scientists believe, in the next 40, 50, 60 years. We are fishing out the top of the food chain, and it's pretty crucial because about 200 million people depend on fish and fishing for their livelihood, and about a billion people, mostly in poorer countries, depend on fish for their protein. So this is a big problem. Good news is, it's fixable.

  Ted Danson

  Country, Believe, Ocean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the food chains, and that can be a really bad day on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Communication, Bad Day, Energy

  "Cosmic Coincidence: Asteroid Careens by as Meteor Delivers ‘Buzz Cut’ to Earth". www.pbs.org. February 15, 2013.

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• Things can be low on the food chain, but that doesn't mean they're lowly.

  Gary Larson

  Mean, Lows, Chains

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• Even the other kids who people made fun of made fun of me. Thats where I stood on the school food chain.

  Nonito Donaire

  Fun, School, Kids

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