Family Farms Quotes:

You can't have the family farm without the family.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Economic, Family Farms, Farms

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

- Tom Allen

topic: Business, Community, Small Business, Family Farms

The fight to save family farms isn't just about farmers. It's about making sure that there is a safe and healthy food supply for all of us. It's about jobs, from Main Street to Wall Street. It's about a better America.

- Willie Nelson

topic: Jobs, Wall, Fighting, Healthy Food, Family Farms

The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

- Armstrong Williams

topic: Morning, Jobs, Father, Family Farms

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

- Tom Vilsack

source: "Rebuilding and Revitalizing America’s Rural Communities" by Sec. Tom Vilsack, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2010.

topic: Past, Years, Income, Family Farms, Farmers And Ranchers

With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren.

- Doc Hastings

topic: Children, House, Support, Family Farms, House Of Representatives

Even people who are aware that the traditional family farm has been taken over by big business interests, and that some questionable experiments go on in laboratories, cling to a vague belief that conditions cannot be too bad, or else the government or the animal welfare societies would have done something about it.

- Peter Singer

source: Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

topic: Taken, Animal, Government, Family Farms, Animal Liberation

In my very first term there was an issue that brought us [George Mitchell, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd] together in a very deep, emotional, and personal level.It was called 'spousal impoverishment' and it meant that for one person [to go into] a nursing home, the family [ ], could go near bankruptcy, and then they'd end up with a lien on the family farm or the home. And so I wanted to change that.

- Barbara Mikulski

source: Source: digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu

topic: Home, Nursing, Emotional, Ted Kennedy, Deep Emotional

Cows that are fed organic food are still kept as slaves on farms, regardless of whether it is a large corporate factory farm or a small family farm. Besides, every dairy cow, no matter what she has been fed, has her babies stolen from her shortly after birth and she will inevitably end up in the slaughterhouse.

- Sharon Gannon

source: "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

topic: Baby, Cows, Matter, Slaughterhouses, Dairy Cows

Federal overreach from agencies like the EPA is hurting family farms. I will fight against these crippling regulations, and always side with the hard working farmers and ranchers of Missouri.

- Eric Greitens

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Hurt, Hard Work, Fighting, Family Farms, Epa

Then by the springtime, you'll see us moving an effort to cut taxes for working families, small businesses and family farms to reform our business taxes in this country so that American businesses can compete more effectively with businesses around the world.

- Mike Pence

source: Source: www.dailyjournal.net

topic: Country, Moving, Cutting, Family Farms, American Business

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

- Christopher Bond

topic: Needs, Saving, Investment, American Values, Family Farms

My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

- Todd Tiahrt

topic: Kansas, Generations, Small Business, Family Farms

Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Children, Teaching, Community, Local Community, Family Farms

The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.

- Jim Bunning

topic: Agriculture, Kentucky, Who We Are, Commonwealth, Family Farms

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Reality, House, Parent, Family Farms, Small Family

The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.

- Mike Pence

topic: Moving, People, Discipline, Family Farms

Bill is about moving forward on a long overdue provision to protect vulnerable paid farm workers in Alberta to the same degree that they are protected in every other province in the country, and we feel confident that once people see how the bill actually applies to the regular family farm, they will see that a lot of the concerns were perhaps misplaced. And it's unfortunate that we created a situation that made people worry; that was not ever our intention.

- Rachel Notley

topic: Country, Moving, Worry, Misplaced, Family Farms

I don't think of community as being a romantic notion. I think it's as vital as air and water, and so I think that informs a lot of what I write about. It could be a story about a couple, or a song about the slow death of the family farm or a small town.

- Greg Brown

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Song, Couple, Writing, Family Farms, Air And Water

I do think that there is a big difference between family farms and agri-business, and one of the distressing things that I think has occurred is with consolidation of farm lands. You've seen large agri-businesses benefit from enormous profits from existing farm programs, and I think we should be focusing most of those programs on those family farmers.

- Barack Obama

topic: Thinking, Land, Differences, Distressing, Consolidation

I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small and medium size family farms so that they can continue to operate.

- Sue Kelly

topic: Unique, Agriculture, Size, Family Farms, Strengthening

The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)

- Wendell Berry

topic: People, Mind, Garbage, Family Farms, Compunction

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

- Sam Donaldson

topic: Texas, Hospitality, Born, El Paso, Family Farms

I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.

- Daryl Hannah

topic: Ideas, Support, Energy, Biofuels, Family Farms

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

- Stephen Cole Kleene

topic: Fall, Maine, My Family, Family Farms

A farm regulated to production of raw commodities is not a farm at all. It is a temporary blip until the land is used up, the water polluted, the neighbors nauseated, and the air unbreathable. The farmhouse, the concrete, the machinery, and outbuildings become relics of a bygone vibrancy when another family farm moves to the city financial centers for relief.

- Joel Salatin

topic: Moving, Air, Land, Family Farms, Vibrancy

The newcomers quickly learned their way about and soon felt at home. The Homestead Act of 1862 provided them, as well as many other pioneers, with an opportunity to acquire land and establish family farms. To the land-hungry immigrants, the tough prairie sod seemed a golden opportunity and they conquered it by hard work.

- Harry S. Truman

source: United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1964). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

topic: Hard Work, Home, Opportunity, Sod, Family Farms