Food Chain Quotes - Page 4

• The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping.

  Bill Gates

  Opportunity, Land, Interesting

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on the World’s Energy Crisis". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. June 20, 2011.

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• Since zombies are not fully dead, they upset the essential balance of nature: no animals eat zombies, apparently, and zombies do not seem to decay, at least, not to the point of disintegration and reintegration back into the soil, so the food chain, or the circle of life, seems to end or be short-circuited by their existence. Zombies fulfill the worst potentialities of humans to create a hellish kingdom on earth of endless, sterile repetition and boredom.

  Kim Paffenroth

  Animal, Circles, Boredom

  Kim Paffenroth (2006). “Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth”, p.13, Baylor University Press

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• As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.

  Jim Starlin

  Whales, Elephants, Bigs

  "Jim Starlin Kills The New Gods". Comicon.com, August 2007.

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• What Ive been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets.

  Heather Mills

  Vegan Food, Fast Food, Chains

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• Fast food chains spend a large amount of marketing to get the attention of children. People form their eating habits as children so they try to nurture clients as youngsters.

  Eric Schlosser

  Children, People, Marketing

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• The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which also inhabit those regions. The fish of the Great Lakes are laced with mercury from industrial plants, and fluoride from aluminum plants poisons the land and the people. Sewage from the population centers is mixed with PCBs and PBS in the watershed of the great lakes and the Finger Lakes, and the water is virtually nowhere safe for any living creatures.

  Winona LaDuke

  Animal, Lakes, Land

  Winona LaDuke (1999). “All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life”, p.17, South End Press

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• Indeed, the quantity of PCBs still in use plus the quantity still languishing in waste dumps exceeds the total amount that has already escaped into the general environment. Without a program to recall and contain them, semivolatile PCBs will continue to insinuate themselves into the food chain for decades.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Environmental, Use, Waste

  Sandra Steingraber (2012). “Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood”, p.136, Da Capo Press

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• The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains as well as our fields so that when some of them fail, we can still eat.

  Michael Pollan

  Eggs, Agriculture, Needs

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The whole thrust of theatre is different, just because the writing is so much more respected in a play. Whereas in movies - and having been the writer, I can say from experience - the writer is lower down on the food chain.

  Matt Damon

  Writing, Play, Theatre

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2002.

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• I'm like a shark, right at the top of the food chain. I take what I want, when I want. I truly am the reflection of perfection.

  Ricky Martin

  Reflection, Sharks, Perfection

  "The Apprentice: Grace Dent's TV OD" by Grace Dent, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2012.

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• I believe martial arts is always evolving and mixed martials arts is the top of the food chain.

  Cung Le

  Art, Believe, Chains

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Actors are always the pawns. They're the last ones in the food chain.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Actors, Lasts, Pawns

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I've always liked politicians and lawyers. They keep the PR professional's status at least two from the bottom of the ethical food chain.

  Shel Israel

  Two, Lawyer, Politician

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• We are not grand because we are at the top of the food chain or because we can alter our environment - the environment will outlast us with its unfathomable forces and unyielding powers. But rather than be bound and defeated by our insignificance, we are bold because we exercise our will anyway, despite the ephemeral and delicate presence we have in this desert, on this planet, in this universe.

  Aron Ralston

  Exercise, Desert, Unyielding

  Aron Ralston (2011). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems disingenuous for the intellectual elite of the first world to dwell on the subject of too many babies being born in the second- and third-world nations while virtually ignoring the over-population of cattle and the realities of a food chain that robs the poor of sustenance to feed the rich a steady diet of grain-fed meat.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Baby, Reality, Vegetarianism

  "Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture". Book by Jeremy Rifkin, 1992.

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