Agribusiness Quotes

• Gracias a las subvenciones agrícolas, la fina colaboración entre la agroindustria y el Congreso, la soja, el maíz y el ganado se convirtieron en reyes. Y el pollo pronto se les unió en el trono. Fue durante este periodo cuando comenzó el ciclo de destrucción dietética y planetaria del que nos estamos dando cuenta ahora.

  Mark Bittman

  Kings, Corn, Collaboration

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• Agribusiness and food processing are important parts of modernizing our economy, of modernizing our agriculture and moving into a phase where a more modernized agriculture helps not only farmers but also helps consumers.

  Manmohan Singh

  Moving, Agriculture, Important

  "PM's McKinsey Quarterly Interview". Interview with Rajat K. Gupta, archivepmo.nic.in. 2005.

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• Estamos, literalmente, jugando con el futuro de nuestro planeta por unas hamburguesas.

  Peter Singer

  Gambling, Hamburgers, Sake

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• It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'

  Wendell Berry

  Agriculture, Understanding, Threatening

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.71, Counterpoint

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• Nuestra cadena alimentaria está en crisis. Las grandes empresas agroalimentarias han hecho que los beneficios sean más importantes que tu salud, más importantes que el medio ambiente, más importantes que tu derecho a saber cómo se producen tus alimentos. Pero bajo la superficie, está creciendo una revolución.

  John Robbins

  Important, Growing, Revolution

  John Robbins, Ocean Robbins (2013). “Voices of the Food Revolution: You Can Heal Your Body and Your World with Food!”, p.13, Conari Press

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• Las familias más pobres, los niños más pobres, están subvencionando el crecimiento de los mayores agronegocios del mundo. Creo que ya es hora de que reconozcamos que en el libre comercio el agricultor pobre, el pequeño agricultor, acaba teniendo que pagar regalías a los Monsantos del mundo.

  Vandana Shiva

  Children, Thinking, Growth

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• Forests and meat animals compete for the same land. The prodigious appetite of the affluent nations for meat means that agribusiness can pay more than those who want to preserve or restore the forest. We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet – for the sake of hamburgers

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Animal, Gambling

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• Colombia was a big wheat producer in the 1950's. That was eliminated by what sounds like a nice plan, called "Food for Peace. " It's a plan by which US taxpayers subsidized US agribusiness to send food to poor countries. This, of course, destroyed the domestic agricultural markets of these countries, opening these markets to US agribusiness.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Nice, Sound

  Source: www.madre.org

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• Undercover investigations threw back the curtain on the systemic exploitation of animals on factory farms. The response by agribusiness interests has been to back laws that ban animal advocates from taking pictures or videos at these facilities, and ban the media from publishing any that are taken. The laws also make it a crime for animal advocates to seek employment at animal enterprises without disclosing their intentions.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Taken, Animal, Media

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

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• Nuestra falta de comunidad es intensamente dolorosa. Un programa de televisión no es comunidad. Un par de horas en un banco de la iglesia cada sábado no es comunidad. Una corporación multinacional no es ni un ser humano ni una comunidad, y en los talleres clandestinos, los campos contaminados de la agroindustria, los laboratorios de mutación genética, las zonas ecológicamente muertas, se muestra la inhumanidad. Sin una auténtica comunidad espiritual, la vida se convierte en una lucha tan solitaria y sombría que incluso Hillary Clinton ha admitido que "se necesita un pueblo".

  David James Duncan

  Spiritual, Lonely, Couple

  David James Duncan (2007). “God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right”, p.99, Triad Institute, Inc.

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• Agribusinesses should never dictate the quality of school meals.

  Jared Polis

  School, Quality, Meals

  "Rep. Polis gets crusty about pizza" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. May 15, 2012.

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• We're still promoting stupid wasteful behavior in agribusiness - everything from ethanol production for cars to genetically modified crops. In commerce just about everything we do politically is in the service of WalMart and the systems tied to it. In transportation, we could, for instance, have compelled General Motors to produce railroad rolling stock as a condition of their bail-out, but we didn't do that. Instead, we're chasing the phantom of electric cars - and, believe me, we are going to be mortally disappointed how that works out.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Stupid, Believe, Work Out

  Source: www.terrain.org

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• El cercamiento de los bienes comunes biológicos e intelectuales de esta manera es una amenaza real para el futuro de las personas de todo el mundo, porque crea una situación en la que las prácticas comunes que han formado parte de la vida de las personas durante generaciones se convierten en monopolios de un puñado de empresas farmacéuticas, agroindustriales y agroquímicas. La gente se vuelve entonces incapaz de atender sus propias necesidades.

  Vandana Shiva

  Real, Practice, People

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field.

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

  Opportunity, Fields, Joints

  "The Regional Economics of Peace" by Edgar M. Bronfman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• There are more obese people in the world than starving people. As China and India start to develop our eating habits - and not by accident but because agribusiness is going over there and imposing our habits on them - if the population doesn't increase at all, we'll have to raise twice as many animals as we do.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, People, World

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• The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against the American grain. Nevertheless, the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant power figures in the United States. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington. Their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments.

  G. William Domhoff

  Real, Land, Ideas

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• Los arroceros haitianos son bastante eficientes, pero no pueden competir con la agroindustria estadounidense, que depende de una enorme subvención gubernamental, gracias a los entusiastas del libre mercado de Ronald Reagan.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Subsidies, Enthusiasm

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• The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute.

  Gloria Steinem

  Air, Rivers, Water

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.421, Open Road Media

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• The US does not observe the free-trade principles. Those are for the weak. So agribusiness is highly subsidized and pours product into Mexico and drives out Mexican farmers. Maybe they have to go into the cities, and they don't have jobs to support them, so they flee across the border.

  Noam Chomsky

  Jobs, Cities, Mexican

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire family does not starve or have to sell off children to agribusiness. 2000: Infringement of Parenthood on sense of Personhood.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Jobs, Dad, Children

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