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I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.

The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and a barren land for birds.

Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.

Food is a weapon - a very effective weapon. People don't cultivate, don't farm, you cut the road off, then you subjugate them very easily.

I thought I might like to farm. But I didn't know the economics of it. Teachers basically steered me away from it.

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

We eat, therefore we hunt.

Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze.