“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery like soil fertility gives way to the hubris that we can treat nature as a machine. Once that leap has been made, one input follows another, so that when the synthetic nitrogen fed to plants makes them more attractive to insects and vulnerable to disease, as we have discovered, the farmer turns to chemical pesticides to fix his broken machine.” KnowsWayGivingHas BeensMadeFacesTurnsMistakeMysteryLandIgnoranceBrokenHealthyDiseaseMachinesTreatsPlantAppreciationVulnerableAttractiveSoilFedsLeapChemicalsFarmersInsectsInputHubrisFertilitySyntheticPesticidesNitrogen Author:Michael Pollan
“From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues the fruit-fed races, founds mighty realms by subjugating other subjugators, forms states and sets up civilisations, to enjoy his prey at rest.” MenFirstsStatesFormFoundEnjoyRaceProgressLandConstantFruitConquerRealmsBeastFedsPreyCivilisation Book:Religion and Art Source: Religion and Art
“I've wandered over many lands, and reaped withal no fruit, I've laid my pride of rank aside, and pressed my baffled suit, At stranger boards, like shameless crow, I've eaten bitter bread, But fierce Desire, that raging fire, still clamours to be fed.” StillsDesireFireLandPrideFruitStrangerRageBreadBitterSuitsBoardsFedsFierceCrowShamelessBaffledClamour Author:Bhartrhari
“I was only one woman alone, and had no power to move to action full-fed, sleek- coated, ease-loving, pleasure-seeking, well-paid,and well-placed countrymen in this war- trampled, dead, old land, each one afraid that he should be called upon to do something.” ShouldWellsWarActionMovingPleasureLandPaidSeekingEaseFedsOne WomanCountrymenPleasure Seeking Author:Clara Barton
“We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without labor, either manual or professional, being few, and of moderate wealth. Most of the laboring class possess property, cultivate their own lands, have families, and from the demand for their labor are enabled to exact from the rich and the competent such prices as enable them to be fed abundantly, clothed above mere decency, to labor moderately and raise their families. ... Can any condition of society be more desirable than this?” StatesWealthUnitedClassUnited StatesRichLandConditionsDemandMassLaborRaisesPropertyMerePopulationFedsDesirableModeratesDecencyCompetentManualsLaborers Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Every day at about four o'clock, I would go up to a farmhouse - or whatever kind of house was around - and knock on the door and say, "Hi, I'm biking across Canada, and I'm wondering if I could pitch my tent on your land." And sometimes people slammed the door in my face, but the vast majority of the time they said, "Of course," and then they said, "Come for dinner," and then they packed me food the next day and fed me breakfast and sometimes they got out the bottle of wine they'd been saving for a special occasion.” PeopleIfsKindSaidSometimesFacesCoursesNextHouseWonderFourDoorsLandSpecialMajorityWineDinnerSavingOccasionsClockIf I CouldCanadaFedsBreakfastBottlesThey SaidNext DayTentsBikingBottles Of WineSpecial Occasion Author:Pam Houston
“Today's fishing industry supplies land farms with fish as well. Over fifty percent of the fish caught is fed to livestock on factory farms and "regular" farms. It is an ingredient in the enriched "feed meal" fed to livestock. Farm animals, like cows, who by nature are vegans, are routinely force-fed fish as well as the flesh, blood, and manure of other animals. It may take sixteen pounds of grain to make one pound of beef, but it also takes one hundred pounds of fish to make that one pound of beef.” WellsMayTodayForceAnimalBloodLandIndustryPercentHundredCaughtFishesFleshMealsFiftyFishingPoundsFedsIngredientsFarmsVeganFactoriesCowsGrainSuppliesSixteenBeefManureLivestock Author:Sharon Gannon
“Today's fishing industry supplies land farms with fish as well. Over fifty percent of the fish caught is fed to livestock on factory farms and "regular" farms. It is an ingredient in the enriched "feed meal" fed to livestock.” WellsTodayLandIndustryPercentCaughtFishesMealsFiftyFishingFedsIngredientsFarmsFactoriesSuppliesLivestock Author:Sharon Gannon
“[My father] did get enough money to buy mules. We didn't have tractors, but he bought mules, wagons, cultivators and some farming equipment. As soon as he bought that and decided to rent some land, because it was always better if you rent the land, but as soon as he got the mules and wagons and everything, somebody went to our trough - a white man who didn't live very far from us - and he fed the mules Paris Green, put it in their food and it killed the mules and our cows.” IfsMenEnoughFatherWhiteLandDecidedGreenParisFedsCowsEquipmentWhite ManFarmingWagonsMulesTractorsTrough Author:Fannie Lou Hamer