Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men.
You have stirred the soil with your plow, my friend. It will never be the same again.
Because of the industrialization of agriculture -- using massive amounts of fossil fuel -- only 2 percent of Americans work in farming. And yet they produce enough food to feed all 300 million Americans, with plenty left over for export. When are liberals going to break the news to their friends in Darfur that they all have to starve to death to save the planet?
There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].
I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
My label is just "good farming", which isn't something you can put on a t-shirt.
I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.
From my standpoint, coca should be neither destroyed nor completely legalized. Farming should be controlled by the state and by the coca farmers' unions.
Organic farming appealed to me because it involved searching for and discovering nature's pathways, as opposed to the formulaic approach of chemical farming. The appeal of organic farming is boundless; this mountain has no top, this river has no end.
There's no beginning to the farmer's year, Only recurrent patterns on a scroll Unwinding. . .
I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It was really interesting to think of how different Asian and Western cultures are as a result of the kinds of agricultural practices that our ancestors used for thousands of years. The life of a Chinese peasant in the Middle Ages was so dramatically different from the life of a European peasant - night and day different.
The status of women up to now has been compared to that of a slave; women have been tied to the home, and only socialism can save them from this. They will only be completely emancipated when we change from small-scale individual farming to collective farming and collective working of the land.
Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it.
How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.
When farming became a corporate venture, and the distribution of food became corporate, the variety of foods that were considered good diminished greatly. I know that there's a lot of misconception about this, that people think we have more food variety than ever before, but, in fact, if you read any of the studies, you'll find we have fewer foods than before.
A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.
Natural farming is just farming, nothing more. You don't have to be a spiritually oriented person to practice my methods.
I truly don't judge other people's actions. But I think that factory farming is an abomination.
The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.