I’m not here to say I don’t eat vegetables – I do, a lot of them – but, from a soil perspective, they’re actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass. Dan Barber Read Quote
Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it’s never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives. Dan Barber Read Quote
We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate. Dan Barber Read Quote
People complain that cities don’t have fresh, sustainable food, but it’s just not true. Dan Barber Read Quote
If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we’re looking at – in our lifetime – great collapses of food services. Dan Barber Read Quote
Vegetables deplete soil. They’re extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals. Dan Barber Read Quote
