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Farms and ranches contend with much more than quarterly reports and profit margins - the weather can wreak havoc on their quality of life and economic viability. When natural disasters strike, we must do all we can to assist the backbone of our economy. -- Ruben Hinojosa
I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms. -- Orville Redenbacher
Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community. -- Michael Pollan
...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms? -- Winston Churchill
The president says, 'There is lots of people worse off than the Farmers.' I don't know who it could be unless it is the fellow who holds the Mortgages on the Farms. -- Will Rogers
Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities. -- Tom Allen
In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules. -- Tina Turner
I became vegan because I saw footage of what really goes on in the slaughterhouses and on the dairy farms. -- Ellen DeGeneres
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. -- Donella Meadows
My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful. -- Queen Latifah
When you meet the farmers and go to the farms, you see that they treat their animals like they're family. It makes a big difference. -- David Chang
I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real. -- Josh Turner
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
The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world. -- David Wilkerson
Prairie grassland once covered much of North America's midsection. European settlers turned nearly all of it into farms and ranches, and today the prairie landscape survives mainly in isolated reserves. -- Stephen Kinzer
As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment. -- Diane Ackerman
Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. -- William Jennings Bryan
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
I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well. -- Barbara Kingsolver
I have a tough stomach, and I've put myself through a lot. But when I first found out what happens to animals on modern factory farms and in today's slaughterhouses, I wanted to throw up - I literally couldn't believe it. -- Steve-O
Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum. -- Alice Waters
When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life. -- Norman Rockwell
Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat. -- Bill Nye
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After spending time with the rescued turkeys at Farm Sanctuary's shelter and seeing how similar they are to my furry companion animals at home, I knew I needed to do everything in my power to protect these friendly and curious birds from the daily pain and suffering they endure on factory farms. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married - we became an interracial couple. -- Alice Walker
Every year, about 10 billion farm animals go through America's horrific factory farm system: cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, lamb. There, they are subjected to unimaginable and torturous confinement in vast factories where they never see the light of day. Agribusiness goes out of its way to make sure you don't see the inside of those factory farms. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
I'm a huge supporter of animal rights - and I've been an outspoken critic of the cruelties routinely inflicted on livestock at factory farms. But it really bothers me that the mistreatment of pigs and chickens and cows seems to attract a lot more attention and spark a lot more outrage than the abuse of immigrant workers. -- Eric Schlosser
I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and we had a lot of Irish friends, so we'd stay on their farms and go fishing. They were fantastic holidays - being outdoors all day and coming home to a really warm welcome in the evenings. -- Vinnie Jones
I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food. -- Rachel McAdams
Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms. -- Anne Stevenson
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers. -- Barbara Kingsolver
It is fundamentally crazy to build wind farms out at sea. But it works! -- Tulsi Tanti
All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty. -- Jo Walton
I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms. -- Daryl Hannah
A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers. -- Edward Abbey
We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong. -- Ann Richards
We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport, but community gardens don't plant themselves. -- Van Jones
I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms, For him that gazes or for him that farms. -- George Crabbe
Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests. -- Earl Warren
I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges. -- Phyllis McGinley
Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments. -- Bob Goodlatte
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it." -- Donella Meadows
I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm. -- Emeril Lagasse
The Obama administration will continue to fight for a comprehensive immigration solution that includes AgJobs and a stable workforce for our farms. -- Tom Vilsack
For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy. -- Bill McKibben
Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death. -- Casey Affleck
We were just country people. All my grandfathers had farms. They had chickens, cattle and tried to get by farming, for the most part. -- Jeff Sessions
A sturdy lad . . . who teams it, farms it . . . and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. -- Marsilio Ficino
Animals on factory farms all face pain and fear, just like the animals we share our homes with, yet are repeatedly abused in shocking ways. -- Peter Dinklage
We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos. -- Bob Barker
We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches. -- Kit Bond
We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches. -- Kit Bond
The farms you live in will be yours for free. When mineworkers strike, it will be to complain that we are giving them too much money. -- Julius Malema
Farm Aid was started in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews as a concert to support small local farms in the U.S. -- Rebecca Pidgeon
My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building. -- Todd Tiahrt
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
I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat. -- Ingrid Newkirk
There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms. -- Ingrid Newkirk
Farmers in America ... are pretty large in general. Their farms are also large. But farmers in the rest of the world are quite skinny, and that's because they're starving. -- Ellen Gustafson
For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and houses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans in the cities and on the farms. -- Richard Lamm
I grew up working on farms. You'd do anything for money. You'd pick blueberries in the summertime for weeks; you'd cut down, like, spruce and fir trees for pulp. -- Diego Klattenhoff
With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren. -- Doc Hastings
When I was born here on one of the farms in Israel, my childhood, I never thought for one day that we will not be living together with Arabs. -- Ariel Sharon
Shrimp farms are a scourge on the earth, frankly, from an environmental point of view. They pour huge amounts of pollutants into the ocean. They also pollute their next-door neighbors. -- Jane Poynter
Federal overreach from agencies like the EPA is hurting family farms. I will fight against these crippling regulations, and always side with the hard working farmers and ranchers of Missouri. -- Eric Greitens
Producing quality compost is the most important job on the organic farm. A lot of the problems I see on farms I visit could be solved by making better compost. -- Eliot Coleman
As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since we may not evolve fast enough to protect nature. -- Elizabeth Lesser
We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination. -- Jack Williamson
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
Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound. -- Ilana Mercer
So when it comes to circadian rhythms, it's a clock that's basically programmed in our body. So if you think back to times when people lived on farms and we didn't have electricity. -- Shelby Harris
You know, we all oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that animals on farms suffer and feel pain like all other animals. They, too, deserve to be protected from harm and cruelty. -- Charlotte Ross
As many of you know, I came from San Francisco. We don't have a lot of farms there. Well, we do have one - it's a mushroom farm, so you know what that means. -- Nancy Pelosi
There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country. -- Bob Feller
When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways. -- Ron Chernow
In Cleveland, I'm so fortunate that we're surrounded by farms with an endless variety of beautiful vegetables. For me, I always eat very tightly with the season, even if the season is only six weeks. -- Michael Symon

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