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Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are desperately unhappy.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
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They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they do not yet offer to insert it, pre-chewed, into your mouth is only because they have found no profitable way to do so.
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If a healthy soil is full of death, it is also full of life: worms, fungi, microorganisms of all kinds ... Given only the health of the soil, nothing that dies is dead for very long.
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People talk about job creation, as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.
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Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.
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People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.
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A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.
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