#sec

If 22 bushels (1,300 pounds) of rice and 22 bushels of winter grain are harvested from a quarter acre field, then the field will support five to ten people each investing an average of less than one hour of labour per day. But if the field were turned over to pasturage, or if the grain were fed to cattle, only one person could be supported per quarter acre. Meat becomes a luxury food when its production requires land which could provide food directly for human consumption. This has been shown clearly and definitely. Each person should ponder seriously how much hardship he is causing by indulging in food so expensively produced. ↗

— Masanobu Fukuoka

#conservation #consumption #farming #food #food-security

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens. ↗

— Steve King

#benefits #citizens #duty #guarantee #nation

I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#democrats #i #i think #ideas #important

Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had felt before, the sense of loss and the aloneness, the utter defenselessness that was each man's lot, sealed up in his bee cell from all the others in the world. But the smelling of boiling vegetables and pork reached him from the inside, the aloneness left him for a while. The warm moist smell promised other people lived and were preparing supper. He listened to the pouring and the thunder rumblings that sounded hollow like they were in a rainbarrel, shared the excitement and the coziness of the buzzing insects that had sought refuge on the porch, and now and then he slapped detachedly at the mosquitoes, making a sharp crack in the pouring buzzing silence. The porch sheltered him from all but the splashes of the drops that hit the floor and their spray touched him with a pleasant chill. And he was secure, because someewhere out beyond the wall of water humanity still existed, and was preparing supper. ↗

— James Jones

#companionship #dinner #food #hawaii #rain

I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York. ↗

— Thomas Kinkade

#art world #elect #elite #galleries #i

One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe though, is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology. ↗

— John W. Thompson

#been #early #gone #incredible #into

Secretary Rumsfeld used to represent parts of our district in the 1960s. I think that he and his team have done a masterful job in defeating Iraqi forces quickly and decisively. ↗

— Mark Kirk

#defeating #district #done #forces #his

The '54 World Cup was the first time the people got the recognition back after the second World War and felt like they are proud of something you know it brought people back together and you know now we can keep our heads up again. ↗

— Jurgen Klinsmann

#again #back #brought #cup #felt

When I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted. Whether or not it actually happens, it changes a culture, and that's part of what we're trying to do here. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#changes #could #culture #follow #get

Social Security is an extremely complicated program. ↗

— John Thune

#extremely #program #security #social #social security