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Food Quotes
"If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story."
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"When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?"
50
"The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'"
49
"The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity."
49
"Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat."
Food,
49
"Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think."
49
"The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops."
49
"I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself."
48
"You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table."
48
"The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country."
47
"There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform."
47
"Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working."
47
"The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm."
47
"I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually."
47
"I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food."
46
"The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status."
46
"Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children."
46
"There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant."
Food,
46
"We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant."
46
"Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over just oil anymore, they will be over water and food."
46
"The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important."
46
"Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food."
Food,
45
"So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it."
45
"I think I was immediately fed, so food became a very important part of my life."
45
"Never order food in excess of your body weight."
45
"Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops."
45
"I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent."
45
"As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything."
Food,
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