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"Try as we might, each of us can eat only about 1500 pounds of food a year. What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1% every year (growth of American population)."
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"Worry is a progressive disease that ruins one's life."
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"Exercise feels best after it is finished."
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"It has been known for many years that a subset of the population cannot tolerate the radiation emitted by transmitting utility meters and sickness results in these people."
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"Distress is a disease of the mind."
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"Health and happiness are interconnected."
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"Bitterness is the cancer of bones."
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"Living in filth is dark doom. The light of awaken leads to cleanliness."
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"Overwork can cause a break down."
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"An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate."
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"Every time you work out you strengthen your body. Every time you don't you weaken it."
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"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."
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"A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule."
Nature

"People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue."
Environment

"My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it."
Food

"It was the same industrial logic- protein is protein- that made feeding rendered cow parts back to cows seem like a sensible thing to do, until scientists figured out that this practice was spreading BSE [mad cow disease]."
Science

"Darwin called such a process artificial, as opposed to natural, selection, but from the flower's point of view, this is a distinction without a difference: individual plants in which a trait desired by either bees or Turks occurred wound up with more offspring."
Science

"Cooking gave us not just the meal but also the occasion: the practice of eating together at an appointed time and place. This was something new under the sun, for the forager of raw food would have likely fed himself on the go and alone, like all the other animals. (Or, come to think of it, like the industrial eaters we've more recently become, grazing at gas stations and eating by ourselves whenever and wherever.) But sitting down to common meals, making eye contact, sharing food, and exercising self-restraint all served to civilize us."
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"The blessing of the omnivore is that he can eat a great many different things in nature. The curse of the omnivore is that when it comes to figuring out which of those things are safe to eat, he's pretty much on his own."
Nature

"Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness."
Environment

"Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even though Obama failed to do many things he indicated he would do around food, Michelle Obama has done a lot to shine a light on the link between diet and health, which is really important."
Health
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