Both climate change and extinction are results of our tyranny over the nonhuman world and our domination of, and exploitation of, whole categories of each other - and those, in turn, are clearly linked to agriculture, the cattle-industrial complex, capitalism.
Lydia Millet
ChangeWorldCapitalismAgriculture
The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.
Friedrich List
GrowthAgricultureMoreIndustry
If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
Bill Gates
FoodMovingEnergyYouAgriculture
I was the first woman elected as secretary of agriculture in Iowa.
Patty Judge
WomanAgricultureFirstIowaElected
I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.
Isabella Rossellini
GreatShoesFoodAgricultureCountry
When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
Xun Kuang
YouAgricultureHeavenIndustryYour
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
Quintilian
WorkTalentAgricultureStudentSoil
The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.
Frances Beinecke
SupportAmericanAgricultureEconomy
I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.
Jerry Moran
FriendFarmerAgricultureAlways
The USDA is tasked with managing and promoting agriculture - including the well-funded animal agriculture industry - so it's pulled into a tug-of-war every time the dietary guidelines are re-evaluated.
Michael Greger
TimeAnimalAgricultureIndustry
Paternalistic regulations often prohibit women from holding jobs in certain industries: In the Russian Federation, women cannot drive trucks in the agriculture sector; in Belarus, they cannot be carpenters; in Kazakhstan, they cannot be welders.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
WomenDriveAgricultureCannotOften
USDA is committed to keeping pace with the needs and progress of American agriculture by supporting new markets and movements that will keep farmers profitable and help create middle class jobs across the country.
Tom Vilsack
ProgressAmericanHelpAgriculture
Beaumont-Hamel sits within a thousand acres of French agriculture. The trenches are under this blanket of grass. In the 1920s, a park was established here and trees from Newfoundland imported to encircle the battlefield so you get the feeling of being within a copse of woods.
Michael Winter
WoodsTreesYouAgricultureFeeling
Industrial agriculture freed many people to pursue lives their parents and grandparents could never have. It made America modern.
Michael Specter
ParentsPeopleAmericaAgriculture
On the Agriculture Committee, I will be an ardent and strong champion for our farmers to ensure that they are treated fairly, particularly in regards to how their products are priced.
Chris Gibson
ChampionStrongAgricultureFarmers
Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.
Allan Savory
AgricultureMoreIndustryMining
I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.
Pawan Kalyan
FarmerAgricultureActorBecomeLand
Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.
Norman Borlaug
SeventyAgricultureIndiaAfrica
Let's not pretend we're in a global free market when it comes to agriculture. Every country protects, for good reason, its agricultural industries.
Justin Trudeau
GoodFreeAgricultureCountryReason
We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world.
Dwayne Andreas
FoodWorldAgricultureCompany
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
Bertrand Russell
MadnessLongAgricultureIntroduction
When I ran for secretary of agriculture in Iowa in 1996, people... were sure that Iowans would not consider electing a woman to that position.
WomanPeopleAgriculturePosition
In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.
Carol P. Christ
WomenAgricultureDiscoveryEurope
To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.
Sam Farr
AgricultureProfitGotMakeAble
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