"You could increase farmworker wages significantly and not change the price to the consumer at all - for instance, if you redistribute how revenue is paid out across the food chain. Labor costs, particularly farm labor, is a tiny portion of the price we pay at the supermarket."

--

Source : "Anna Lappé Is Ready to Bust the Food Industry’s Biggest Myths". Interview with Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. October 2, 2013.

Anna Lappe

#Cost Quotes #Wages Quotes #Pay Quotes

“Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.”

Source : Lynn Austin (2009). “Though Waters Roar”, p.166, Bethany House
“I see you've decided to take my advice after all, Richard." Lady Wendall's amused voice said from somewhere above and behind him. "Marrying your ward is *exactly* the sort of usual scandal I had in mind: I wonder it didn't occur to me before.”
“Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.”
“You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.”

Source : Gwen Bristow (2014). “Tomorrow Is Forever: A Novel”, p.133, Open Road Media
“I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.”

Source : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.63, Mondial
“I think people were very skeptical always when they said, "Oh docs, they don't work. When you make depressing docs that don't have 'save this or save that,' they just can't do well." I fought very hard to say, "No. This is important. I think people care and I think it's interesting." I hope people go see it.”
“Repetition is the mother of skill.”
“I think I'm less afraid of failure than some others.”

You may also like:

Alice Waters
Chef
Eric Schlosser
Journalist
Frances Moore LappÃ©
Author
Marion Nestle
Professor
Michael Pollan
Author
Michele Simon
Lawyer
Raj Patel
Journalist
Vandana Shiva
Author
Bryant Terry
Chef