Food Chain Quotes - Page 2

• Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologies come into conflict with nature's ways of doing things, as when we seek to maximize efficiency by planting crops or raising animals in vast mono-cultures. This is something nature never does, always and for good reasons practicing diversity instead. A great many of the health and environmental problems created by our food system owe to our attempts to oversimplify nature's complexities, at both the growing and the eating ends of our food chain.

  Michael Pollan

  Technology, Animal, Diversity

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Los del grupo popular dicen que no hay presión de grupo porque están en la cima de la cadena alimentaria. En realidad, lo que hacen es comerse a todos los demás.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Pressure Groups, People, Peer Pressure

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• In some suburban schools, the curriculum is chock-full of rigorous A.P. courses and the parking lot glitters with pricey SUVs, but one doesn't have to look hard to find students who are starving themselves, cutting themselves, or medicating themselves, as well students who are taking out their frustrations on those who sit lower on the social food chain.

  Alfie Kohn

  School, Cutting, Frustration

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• Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit these carbon atoms for the molecules necessary to support life-the carbohydrates, amino acids, proteins, and lipids-is by means of photosynthesis. Using sunlight as a catalyst the green cells of plants combine carbon atoms taken from the air with water and elements drawn from the soil to form the simple organic compounds that stand at the base of every food chain. It is more than a figure of speech to say that plants create life out of thin air.

  Michael Pollan

  Taken, Mean, Simple

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Cuando entro en un restaurante, la camarera que me trae la comida, el cocinero de atrás que la ha preparado, los repartidores, los mayoristas, los trabajadores de las fábricas de procesamiento de alimentos, los carniceros, los agricultores, los ganaderos y todos los demás integrantes de la cadena alimentaria económica están siendo utilizados por Dios para "darme hoy mi pan de cada día".

  Gene Veith

  Hombres, Dar, Pan

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• Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent...and remarkably popular products and practices.

  Thomas Szasz

  Children, Practice, Fast Food

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• Always acknowledge your position in the food chain... They eat because you grow the food.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Chains, Grows, Acknowledge

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• Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.

  Al Yankovic

  Lows, Chains

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• We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent.

  Marge Piercy

  Real, Hombres, Pensamiento

  Marge Piercy (2016). “The Longings of Women: A Novel”, p.351, Open Road Media

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• Contratar a gente extremadamente independiente, inteligente y apasionada, no necesariamente "expertos". Puede que tres o cuatro de mis empleados tengan un MBA, y esos tipos no están necesariamente en lo más alto de la cadena alimentaria.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Independent, Intelligent, Mba

  "Yvon Chouinard sobre el espíritu empresarial". Entrevista con Amy S. Choi, www.bloomberg.com. 20 de junio de 2008.

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• Con tantas pruebas del agotamiento de los recursos naturales, los residuos tóxicos, el cambio climático, el daño irreparable a nuestra cadena alimentaria y el rápido aumento de los casos de catástrofes naturales, ¿por qué seguimos perpetuando el problema? ¿Por qué seguimos marchando al mismo ritmo alarmante?

  Yehuda Berg

  Daños irreparables, residuos tóxicos, clima

  "What the @#$% is Going On?" por Yehuda Berg, www.huffingtonpost.com. 10 th Of July de 2010.

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• I don't think blogs can make or break a candidate. I think they're going to be important to a certain degree. I think they can help somebody who's lesser known, somebody's who's lower down in the food chain politically. I think somebody like a Hillary Clinton doesn't necessarily need bloggers for people to know who she is and what she stands for. I think she's got all the - she's got a big enough soap box - a bigger soap box than she'll ever need that we could ever provide in the blog world.

  Markos Moulitsas

  Pensamiento, Gente, Importante

  Fuente: abcnews.go.com

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• I turned down a date once because I was looking for someone a little closer to the top of the food chain.

  Judy Tenuta

  Littles, Chains, Turned Down

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• We don't have a farm-to-table food safety system. I keep saying this. It came as a big surprise to the FDA that tomatoes were being grown in the United States, sent to Mexico for packing, and then sent back. I mean, they had no idea that our food chain worked like this.

  Marion Nestle

  Mean, Ideas, Fda

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• Se podrían aumentar significativamente los salarios de los trabajadores agrícolas y no cambiar en absoluto el precio para el consumidor, por ejemplo, si se redistribuye la forma en que se pagan los ingresos a lo largo de la cadena alimentaria. El coste de la mano de obra, sobre todo la agrícola, es una parte ínfima del precio que pagamos en el supermercado.

  Anna Lappe

  Cost, Wages, Pay

  "Anna Lappé Is Ready to Bust the Food Industry’s Biggest Myths". Interview with Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. October 2, 2013.

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• With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the food-chain.

  Josh Marshall

  Numbers, Ties, Trying

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• Jessica Alba to me is on the top of the food chain. She's gorgeous, she's smart, and she really takes care of herself. I think that she looks great. I think that as Jennifer Aniston gets older, she looks better and better, and I really like that.

  Bob Harper

  Smart, Thinking, Looks

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• Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not conducive to good health.

  Michael Pollan

  People, Kind, Eating

  Fuente: indianapublicmedia.org

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• Una de las grandes ventajas del libre mercado es que es inherente e infatigablemente darwinista. Dejado a su suerte, un mercado libre acabará eliminando a los estúpidos de ambos extremos de la cadena alimentaria, también conocida como oferta y demanda. A medida que el dinero se libera de las manos de los estúpidos, los que venden productos o servicios a los estúpidos acaban perdiendo su cuota de mercado. Desprovisto de cualquier interferencia "benévola" del gobierno, el proceso es gloriosamente implacable, y no puede evitar producir una clase sucesivamente más inteligente de participantes.

  Edward Britton

  Hierba, Estupidez, Gobierno

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• I went to Seattle as just another geek in the food chain, thinking, "Well, in my own puny little way, I'd rather be a part of history than just sit and watch it on TV." So, the fact that so many people are starting to ask the right questions and rack their brains for solutions does give me hope.

  Jello Biafra

  Pensar, Gente, Dar

  Entrevista con Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. 1 de febrero de 2002.

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• Although I was simply what today would be called a "mule" - the bottom of the food chain in the drug biz - the federal system treated me from beginning to end like a major criminal, and I still don't know why, other than that in those days, 6.5 ounces of heroin was a big load. Ludicrous by today's standards, when coke, heroin, and weed are shipped across the border by the ton.

  Patricia McConnell

  Weed, Drug, Criminals

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• It's nice to be included in the broadcast food chain.

  Dennis Miller

  Nice, Chains

  Fuente: www.foxnews.com

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• In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.

  Dan Simmons

  Grease, Meat, Foam

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.254, Spectra

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• San Jorge mató al último dragón, y le llamaron héroe por ello. Nunca he visto un dragón, y ojalá hubiera dejado al menos uno. Saint Patrick se hizo un nombre por sí mismo expulsando a las serpientes de Irlanda, dejando el lugar vulnerable a la infestación de roedores. Esto de convertir en santos a los hombres que exterminan a sus congéneres tiene que acabar. Todo lo que digo es que está empezando a ser un poco solitario aquí en la parte superior de la cadena alimentaria.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Running, Lonely, Hero

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• I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn't always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain.

  Bruce Willis

  Pensamiento, Derecho, Personas

  Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. June 11, 2007.

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