“Amazingly, we’ve become a culture
that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs,
and Mountain Dew safe,
but raw milk and
compost-grown tomatoes unsafe.”
~ Joel Salatin
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Category Archives: Food
“Someday
we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture
and shake our heads.
How could we have ever believed
that it was a good idea
to grow our food with poisons?”
~ Jane Goodall
“When the products that go into our food
are driven by money,
there’s always a conflict of interest involved.”
~ The Well Fed Homestead
“If we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner,
then we can certainly have a garden.”
~ Bill de Blasio
Thought for the Day
“Why don’t we pay more attention
to who our farmers are?
We would never be as careless
choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter
as we are about who grows our food.”
~ Michael Pollan
“The Botany of Desire:
A Plant’s-Eye View of the World”
Thought for Today
“If organic farming is the natural way,
shouldn’t organic produce just be called “produce”
and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective?”
~Ymber Delecto~