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We believe ranchers and farmers and family business owners can make better decisions about the future than the government can.

George Bush - Politics - Belief - Government - Taxes - Farming - Decisions



Organic farming has been shown to provide major benefits for wildlife and the wider environment. The best that can be said about genetically engineered crops is that they will now be monitored to see how much damage they cause.

Prince Charles - Organic - Farming - Environment - Insanity - Food



It is vitally important that we can continue to say, with absolute conviction, that organic farming delivers the highest quality, best-tasting food, produced without artificial chemicals or genetic modification, and with respect for animal welfare and the environment, while helping to maintain the landscape and rural communities.

Prince Charles - Organic - Farming - Environment - Important - Food - Important - Best - Respect



While the demand for organic food outstrips supply, we happen to know that 77 percent of consumers don't want genetically engineered crops grown in this country. Consumers can choose whether or not to buy organic produce. Genetically modified ingredients will deny us choice in the long run.

Prince Charles - Organic - Farming - Food - Consumer - Britain



It is now 14 years since I first suggested that organic farming might have some benefits and ought to be taken seriously. I shall never forget the vehemence of the reaction.. much of it coming from the sort of people who regard agriculture as an industrial process, with production as the sole yardstick of success.

Prince Charles - Criticism - Farming - Food - Organic - Success



Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations. Any analysis of the real cost would have to look at such things as the rise in food-borne illnesses, the advent of new pathogens, such as E.coli 0157, antibiotic resistance from the overuse of drugs in animal feed, extensive water pollution from intensive agricultural systems and many other factors. These costs are not reflected in the price of fast food.

Prince Charles - Social - Farming - Environment - Food - Pollution



Personally, I have been very impressed by the slow food movement. It is about celebrating the culture of food, of sharing the extraordinary knowledge, developed over millennia, of the traditions involved with quality food production, of the sheer joy and pleasure of consuming food together. Especially within the context of family life, this has to be one of the highest forms of cultural activity.

Prince Charles - Food - Farming - Consumer - Knowledge - Family - Cultural



All I'm saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end.. environmentally and everywhere else.. for the food that is produced in a particular way.

Prince Charles - Farming - Environment - Food



It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

BC Forbes - Work - Success



Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time, organic agriculture is proving to be a serious contender in modern farming and a more environmentally sustainable system over the long term.

David Suzuki - Environmental - Sustainable - Organic



With the advent of industrial farming and the green revolution, organic farming was relegated to the status of "quaint" or "old-fashioned".. something practiced by hippies on communes, certainly not by serious farmers.

David Suzuki - Organic - Sustainable