Quotes About Industrial Agriculture

#1. Industrial medicine is as little interested in ecological health as is industrial agriculture. (Health Is Membership, pg. 98)

Wendell Berry

#2. If we accept a mere tenth of what animal-rights activists are claiming, then modern industrial agriculture might well be the greatest crime in history. When

Yuval Noah Harari

#3. Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.

David Holmgren

#4. 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

#5. I've been thinking about that question about what city people can do. The main thing is to realize that country people can't invent a better agriculture by ourselves. Industrial agriculture wasn't invented by us, and we can't uninvent it. We'll need some help with that.

Wendell Berry

#6. Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.

Wendell Berry

#7. Industrial agriculture, because it depends on standardization, has bombarded us with the message that all pork is pork, all chicken is chicken, eggs eggs, even though we all know that can't really be true.

Joel Salatin

#8. Industrial agriculture freed many people to pursue lives their parents and grandparents could never have. It made America modern.

Michael Specter

#9. Sometimes the large scale organic farmer looks like someone trying to practice industrial agriculture with one hand tied behind his back.

Michael Pollan

#10. I wish for recycling to become a major industrial agriculture.

Tishuan Scott

#11. The modern chicken is both a technological triumph and a poster child for all that is sad and nightmarish about our industrial agriculture. The most engineered creature in history is also the world's most commonly mistreated animal.

Andrew Lawler

#12. 'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'

Matthew Scully

#13. Where was the lecture on how slavery alone catapulted the whole country from agriculture into the industrial age in two decades? White folks' hatred, their violence, was the gasoline that kept the profit motors running.

Toni Morrison

#14. The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.

Richard Bach

#15. It was bittersweet and lovely how this thing called family could make you feel belonged, wanted and complete.

Diyar Harraz

#16. Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

Daisaku Ikeda

#17. The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures.

Adolf Hitler

#18. Russell Square is one of the odder areas of London.

Benedict Jacka

#19. An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing.

Vandana Shiva

#20. I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#21. I'm not a guy who takes films for strong political messages.

Ewan McGregor

#22. into my tightest place

Lynn Red

#23. If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it.

Priscilla Welch