“Food is a great metaphor for the consolidation of corporate power in the hands of very few, who are mostly interested in their own profits and not the wellbeing of the animals they're slaughtering, or the land and the water they're using or abusing, or the workforce they're exploiting or even the people eating it.” PeopleHandsWaterAnimalLandEatingMetaphorProfitCorporateWellbeingWorkforceConsolidation Author:Robert Kenner
“If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.” IfsLandEatingEnvironmentalGave UpBeef Author:James Lovelock
“Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?” StillsLastsAnimalLandEatingForgivingMatesGarbageLiving OnScrap Book:Light Action in the Caribbean: Stories Source: Light Action in the Caribbean: Stories
“All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.” IfsWorldWellsSaidTogetherAmericaLostGivenFeetLandMissingEventsFineEatingSittingGardenDrivenSheepTraveledLinkedCastlesThrustInquisitionBacksidesCandidePistachios Author:Voltaire
“"Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. "Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behind,” David said. "It just takes a little surgery to do it."” LooksLittlesSaidCountryDoneWholeLeftMillionsClearCuttingTreeLandEatingRainSpeciesKillingBunchForestsGrassCowsPullingSurgeryGarbageConsumedLiving ThingsHamburgersGrazingWeb Of LifeClear Cutting Author:Scott Westerfeld
“Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.” MomentsSadnessLandProduceEatingMiseryMortalsMiserableFlamesIliad Author:Homer
“The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.” WritingYearsPlansLandOceanEatingUltimateSmokingPotWeedMarijuanaHerbsCannabisCaribbeanSmoking WeedSmoke WeedSmokin WeedSmoking Pot Author:Ryan Phillippe