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"I was doing the whole farm to table thing in the 1980's in Milwaukee, WI. At that time, if you told somebody that you and your sous chef drove out to get roadside asparagus with a pig in the back of your van, [customers] wouldn't want to eat it. If you were doing farm to table, you were just weird!" [08:00]
"There are 50 million people that are so food insecure that they don't have money for food that allows them to live a healthy lifestyle. 1 in 4 children are living in poverty in this country." [21:00]
"Subsidies that go to processed food and big ag support the type of mechanization that actually eliminates jobs." " [28:00]
--Michel Nischan on "the business of The Business"
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"More and more farmers are realizing that the industrial system is not working for them. 90% of our farmers would not be in production if they didn't have the ability to sell directly to consumers."
--Michael Hurwitz, Executive Director of Greenmarket NYC on Straight, No Chaser
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"If you are gonna try to diet, you just have to eat less. There's really no other way to do it."
"Most people aren't active enough to work off the excess calories they consume."
--Marion Nestle on Taste Matters
