Usda Quotes

#1. Last year, the USDA said for the first time in 150 years that there were more farms in America instead of fewer. I think that's the single most hopeful statistic I know.

Bill McKibben

#2. In 75 foreign countries, we have a presence in the USDA.

Mike Johanns

#3. USDA regulations spell out precisely what sort of facility and system is permissible, but they don't set thresholds for food-borne pathogens. (That would require the USDA to recall meat from packers who failed to meet the standards, something the USDA, incredibly, lacks the authority to do.)

Michael Pollan

#4. The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.

Mark Bittman

#5. To help producers serve larger institutional customers like schools and hospitals, USDA has helped fund new regional infrastructure like cold storage warehouses, commercial kitchens and local slaughter facilities.

Tom Vilsack

#6. To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the 'Let's Move' campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources.

Tom Vilsack

#7. Unless you eat foods clearly marked "Certified organic by the USDA," you are taking part in a genetic experiment that is unprecedented in earth's long history.

Alberto Villoldo

#8. Never in my life would I have expected USDA to be opposed to farmers and ranchers.

Jerry Moran

#9. If you think of what food is, it's the energy we use to do our daily work. I want people to know about the USDA. This is a very important department. It's not fully appreciated as such.

Tom Vilsack

#10. For thirty to forty years, industry cranked up trans all it could," confirmed a trans-fat expert at the USDA.

Nina Teicholz

#11. The man needed USDA Prime tattooed up his flank.

Maeve Greyson

#12. The USDA labs in Ames, Iowa, are level-four security clearance. Every nasty thing you can imagine is stored there. Ground zero for the apocalypse. And there's a day care right across the street.

Benjamin Percy

#13. USDA says pink slime, which is made of cow connective tissue and other scraps and then treated with ammonia to kill the salmonella, e Coli, potentially, the U.S. Government says it's totally safe.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#14. It's chick flick disguised as a sword-and-sorcery picture. The only genre film with less balls is probably ... freakin' Legend. Anyone who actually enjoys Ladyhawke is a bona fide USDA-choice pussy!

Ernest Cline

#15. One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.

Michael Pollan

#16. The USDA is tasked with managing and promoting agriculture - including the well-funded animal agriculture industry - so it's pulled into a tug-of-war every time the dietary guidelines are re-evaluated.

Michael Greger

#17. Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural America. At the center of our vision is an effort to increase domestic production and use of renewable energy.

Tom Vilsack

#18. Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.

Caldwell Esselstyn

#19. Meat is produced under HACCP plans. Meat and poultry are required to be produced under standard food safety plans and they have been since the mid-'90s, and there are now fewer problems with meat than there used to be. That's on the USDA's side.

Marion Nestle

#20. USDA is committed to keeping pace with the needs and progress of American agriculture by supporting new markets and movements that will keep farmers profitable and help create middle class jobs across the country.

Tom Vilsack

#21. American farmers and ranchers deserve a USDA that will pursue supportive policies rather than seek their further harm.

Jerry Moran

#22. I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.

Walton Goggins

#23. Oh, yeah, I do movies; I forgot. They see them on TV. I forget that anybody knows me

Shannon Tweed

#24. I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me.

Richard Simmons

#25. Meanwhile: consider that time is a weapon.

Laurie Penny

#26. Many are guilty of merely 'nibbling' at the truth of the Christian Gospel.

A.W. Tozer

#27. Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even when you don't get what you expect.

Victoria Osteen

#28. Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.

Laozi

#29. That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting.

Irene Dunne

#30. There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write well than it is to take out the garbage.

Matthew Specktor

#31. We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.

Susan Moody

#32. Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.

Aristotle.

#33. I would love to retire a Raider, but I have earned the right to be a free agent.

Richard Seymour