“Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore.” PeopleIfsYearsHelpingLastsNightSocialSecurityBenefitsDebtFarmersFewerTelephonesSocial SecurityLast NightConstituentsSubsidiesVermont Author:Peter Welch
“Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.” YearsGrowsEconomicProduceBenefitsAdvantageTradeRoundsWinterFarmersStarters Author:David Suzuki
“A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit are resource-poor farmers in developing countries. These helped alleviate 7.7 million subsistence farmers in China, India, South Africa, the Philippines from abject poverty.” WorldCountryPoorPovertyMillionsBenefitsPercentResourcesIndiaSouthCriticsChinaValuableDecadesDevelopingFarmersSouth AfricaCropsPhilippinesAlleviateDeveloping CountriesSubsistenceBiotech Author:Clive James
“I do think that there is a big difference between family farms and agri-business, and one of the distressing things that I think has occurred is with consolidation of farm lands. You've seen large agri-businesses benefit from enormous profits from existing farm programs, and I think we should be focusing most of those programs on those family farmers.” ThinkingShouldBigsDifferencesLandBenefitsProgramProfitEnormousFarmsFarmersAgricultureDistressingConsolidationFamily Farms Author:Barack Obama
“Genetic engineering is having a serious impact on the food we eat, on the environment, and on farmers. To ensure we can maximize benefits and minimize hazards, Congress must provide a comprehensive regulatory framework for all genetically engineered products.” EnvironmentSeriousProductsBenefitsImpactCongressFarmersEngineeringFrameworkComprehensiveHazardsGenetic Engineering Author:Dennis Kucinich
“[The Democrats] will say that the Reagan administrtion has given benefits to the rich at the expense of the poor - a term that they define broadly to include middle-income people, women, minorities, the aged, the young, farmers, steelworkers, and others.” PeopleYoungGivenTermPoorRichMiddleBenefitsDemocratIncomeMinoritiesExpensesFarmersAmerican Politics Author:Herbert Stein
“We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.” IfsMenGovernmentWould BeAgeTurnsPoliticsEasyDifficultLeadershipPoorPayStreetsTalentKingsBenefitsHundredTownsCourtAffairLawyerBoardsEnterpriseFarmersArchitectEngineersGovernorsEstatesExtensionsJohnsonEmperorCountyFeesCombiningPrivate EnterpriseGood Husband Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations
“If shoppers looked at crooked carrots, misshapen potatoes, slightly dinged apples or too-small peaches and thought, wow, that looks delicious, imagine the benefits for struggling farmers.” IfsLooksStruggleImagineBenefitsApplesFarmersWowDeliciousPotatoesCrookedCarrotsPeachesShoppers Author:Dana Cowin
“We need to fight protectionism with everything that we have because when there's a level playing field and when you have open markets and when free trade is flourishing, American workers, American farmers, Americans are going to benefit.” NeedsFightingLevelsFieldsBenefitsTradeWorkersFarmersFlourishingFree TradePlaying FieldsAmerican WorkersProtectionismLevel Playing Field Author:Condoleezza Rice