"If you send it halfway around the world before it is eaten, an organic food still may be 'good' for the consumer, but is it 'good' for the food system?"

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Source : Gary Paul Nabhan (2002). “Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods”, p.47, W. W. Norton & Company

Gary Paul Nabhan

#World Quotes #May Quotes #Be Good Quotes

“I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“When I am told (by those who confuse predestination with God's providence) that God already knows who will be saved and who will be damned, and therefore anything we do is useless, I usually answer with four truths that the bible spells out for us:God wants that everyone be saved; No one is predestined to go to hell; Jesus died for everyone; and everyone is given sufficient graces for salvation.”
“The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.”
“Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.”
“At the beginning of the Syrian conflict, I was optimistic. But now, I'm pessimistic, because it's so complicated. It's much worse than before. The whole world is fighting inside of Syria. It will take years and years to resolve.”
“I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.”
“Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.”
“If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.”

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