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Al Lewis

"I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina."

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"I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina."

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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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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

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"Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand."

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"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."

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"Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food."

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"What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center."
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"My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means."
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"The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had."
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"The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago."
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"Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard."
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"I'm more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?"
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"Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!"
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"I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself."
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"I have an old brain but a terrific memory."
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"I've been in the struggle over seventy years - it doesn't bother me I may not win."
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