#farming

Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#farming #food

Escherichia colia O157:H7 is a relatively new strain of the common intestinal bacteria (no one had seen it before 1980) that thrives in feedlot cattle, 40 percent of which carry it in their gut. Ingesting as few as ten of these microbes can cause a fatal infection; they produce a toxin that destroys human kidneys. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#cattle #factory-farming #feedlots #nature

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#because #easily #entitled #farmers #farming

I'm glad I don't have to make a living farming. Too much hard work. Too many variables you don't have control over, like, is it going to rain? All I can say is, god bless the real farmers out there. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#control #farmers #farming #glad #god

Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice. ↗

— Don Young

#arctic #community #covered #farming #found

So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel. ↗

— Daryl Hannah

#farming #idea #me #organic #practices

Farming with live animals is a 7 day a week, legal form of slavery. ↗

— George Segal

#farming #form #legal #live #slavery

There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#already #associated #both #communities #crop

Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable. ↗

— Gary Miller

#believe #farming #gardening #guest #guest worker program

My family has spent 400 years farming on the banks of the Rio Grande. We know the value of hard work, love of the community, love for water and land. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#banks #community #family #farming #hard