“If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not be allowed to do so?” IfsWorldShouldProductsIndiaSellsFarmers Author:Sharad Pawar
“Family farmers are small farmers who love the land. They're still not getting enough money for their product and are rapidly losing their battle to stay in business. By helping the American family farmer, we will in turn help ourselves out of the economic hole that we find ourselves in today. It doesn't really matter how we got here; the point is, we have to dig our way out.” WayStillsMatterEnoughHelpingTodayTurnsEconomicLandProductsBattleLosingHolesFarmersAmerican Family Author:Willie Nelson
“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 measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds as ideals of American farming the men who grow cotton, corn, rice, swine, tobacco, or wheat and nothing else. These are to be given special favors at the expense of the farmer who has toiled for years to build up a constructive farming enterprise to include a variety of crops and livestock.” MenYearsHas BeensGivenGrowsSpecialHe ManProductsSafeIdealsProgramBillsFavorsVarietyEnterpriseExpensesFarmersAgricultureFarmingCornConstructiveCropsRiceTobaccoWheatCottonSwineLivestock Author:Calvin Coolidge
“To argue that we need some technology in order to produce food to tackle hunger is completely blind to the facts on the ground. Actually, what we need is the exact opposite of what GMOs give us. We have to empower farmers to grow food for themselves and plant and grow their own seeds and use practices to deal with weeds and the need for fertility, not from purchased products like a seed or a chemical, but from their own farms, from their own knowledge and skill sets.” NeedsGivingFactsUseOrderGrowsDealsPracticeTechnologyProduceProductsSkillsOppositesBlindPlantHungerSeedsArguingEmpoweringWeedFarmsChemicalsFarmersFertilityGmos Author:Anna Lappe
“It does not matter whether you paint, sculpt, or make shoes, whether you are a gardener, a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter-it does not matter. What matters is, are you putting your very soul into what you are creating? Then your creative products have something of the quality of divine.” DoeSoulMatterQualityCreativeDivineProductsCreatingPaintShoesFarmersWhat MattersGardenerFishermanCarpenter Author:Rajneesh
“The US does not observe the free-trade principles. Those are for the weak. So agribusiness is highly subsidized and pours product into Mexico and drives out Mexican farmers. Maybe they have to go into the cities, and they don't have jobs to support them, so they flee across the border.” DoeJobsCitiesPrinciplesSupportProductsWeakTradeBordersFarmersMexicoMexicanFree TradeAgribusiness Author:Noam Chomsky
“I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me.” GrowingFieldsParticularProductsFishesBoatRanFarmersFishermanDays OffSubmerged Author:Emeril Lagasse