Quotes having the keyword Corn
Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.
by Michael Pollan (Educator , American) keywords: calories, cheap, corn, designed, efficient, energy, fast, food, get, getting, land, lot, off, produces, protein, resulting, system , way In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.
by Michael Pollan (Educator , American) keywords: addition, amounts, bushel, contributing, corn, dead, erosion, food, fossil, fuel, gallon, half, huge, poisoning, pollution, produce, requires, takes , zone In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.
by Michael Pollan (Educator , American) keywords: american, carbon, chain, comes, corn, eat, fast-food, food, found, key, look, mcdonald, meal, mostly, think , virtually It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.
by Orville Redenbacher (Businessman, American , born in 1907) keywords: air, compared, corn, depth, dry, easiest, even, evenly, necessary, route, sides, stored, take, top , would We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
by Orville Redenbacher (Businessman, American , born in 1907) keywords: cattle, corn, dent, did, ever, feeding, made, money, more , than If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.
by David Ricardo (Economist, British , born in 1772) keywords: accumulation, capital, certainly, classes, commercial, corn, encouragement, fall, industry, lead, means, most, obtained, price, productive, prosperity, surely, then, these , will If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can spray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn because it's producing a gene that makes it tolerant of the herbicide.
by Jeremy Rifkin (Economist, American , born in 1945) keywords: because, corn, gene, herbicides, kill, makes, means, producing, spray, tolerant, weeds, won , your I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice.
by Cesar Romero (Actor, American , born in 1907) keywords: above, ankles, below, corn, plasters, taping, toes, twice , wearing Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.
by John Shimkus (Politician, American , born in 1958) keywords: corn, country, critical, crop, crops, farmers, fertilizer, illinois, key, nitrogen, plant, produce, produced , used U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products.
by John Shimkus (Politician, American , born in 1958) keywords: access, benefit, cafta, corn, countries, exports, products, reduced, tariffs , will I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.
by Shel Silverstein (Poet, American , born in 1930) keywords: anything, beef, believe, corn, expect, fly, hand, sandwich, sit, socks, then, want, wash , your I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track.
by Marc Singer (Actor, Canadian , born in 1948) keywords: black, bread, build, cooks, corn, example, give, guy, henry, how, knows, lay, old, railroads, track, worked , years The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.
by Joanna Southcott (Celebrity, English , born in 1750) keywords: began, corn, dear, distress, grew, land, next, our , summer I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.
by Andrew Wyeth (Artist, American , born in 1917) keywords: back, below, bring, catch, color, corn, could, drives, grow, love, mad, many, nature, only, stalks, studio, study, them, things, thought, true , very
