#farms

A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#farms #fort #hand #intervals #leavenworth

The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms. ↗

— Mike Pence

#american #american people #businesses #discipline #economy

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#circle #consideration #eager #extend #factory

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities. ↗

— Tom Allen

#backbone #businesses #communities #family #family farms

We get a lot of people from out of state who come down and it's not what they expect Florida to be, the horse farms and oak trees instead of the sand and the ocean. ↗

— David Jones

#down #expect #farms #florida #get

I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small and medium size family farms so that they can continue to operate. ↗

— Sue Kelly

#am #committed #continue #economy #family

So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#corn #cows #factory-farms #food #industry

Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I'm not the only one who believes this. Please. As a culture, we think we're well educated, but I'm not sure that what we've learned necessarily helps us survive. ↗

— Joel Salatin

#education #farms #food #knowledge #education

My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop. ↗

— Peter Agre

#boy scout #brother #cousins #dairy #farms

Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians. ↗

— George Crook

#away #call #cows #farms #fences