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" All the food we eat - every grain of rice and kernel of corn - has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isn't whether our food has been modified, but how. "

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" If people want to believe that our ancestors were riding around on dinosaurs or that the protracted, increasing, and devastating warming of the Earth is just nature doing its thing - I guess I feel I have more useful battles to fight. "

Michael Specter

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Nature

People

" All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly powerful way to do what we have been doing for eleven thousand years. "

" The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. "

" There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate. "

" Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for. "

David Chang

Food

You

" I really like food. Honestly, anytime I have time off, I binge-watch Netflix and eat chicken tenders. That's my guilty pleasure. Separate or together! "

" I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food. "

" I love to take something ordinary and make it really special. "

" Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu. "

" Italian food really reflects the people. It reflects like a prism that fragments into regions. "

" Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken. "

" Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy. "

" Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships. "

" Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand. "

Michael Pollan

Food

Demand

" The service of food is to nurture, to please, to nourish. "

" Taste as you go. When you taste the food throughout the cooking process you can make adjustments as you go. "

" If caught early, Lyme is easily treated with antibiotics. But activists, and many researchers, have long contended that tens of thousands of people remain unaware that they have been infected - sometimes for years, during which the bacterium can spread to the heart, nervous system, and brain. "

" I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend. "

" Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. "

" When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor. "

" During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That's because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain. "

" I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant. "

" Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that. "

" If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant. "

" God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. "

Josiah Gilbert Holland

God

Nest

" Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale. "

" I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. "

" I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand. "

" 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. "

" Obviously as I'm getting older, I'm seeing changes in my body that I may not like... but I do love food, and I'm from the South. I'm not gonna lie, I eat fried chicken, I love macaroni and cheese, and I love grits. "