14. “...a neighborhood in which
residents typically must travel
twice as far to reach the closest
supermarket or local grocer as
people in better-appointed
neighborhoods...”
17. “The US wastes
40% of all food
produced per year.”
GOOD.is
http://www.good.is/post/the-u-s-wastes-40-percent-of-all-
food-produced-per-year-how-about-we-stop-doing-that/
19. “We must recognize that
our food production system
was conceived in different times;
what worked then is
inadequate, even
dangerous, now.”
20. “...our food production system remains
structurally blind to ecological and
social imperatives. Designed to
create wealth and
distribute cheap food, the
system has been slow to factor in
its responsibilities for the health of
the land and the people.”
21. “...on a global basis
Agriculture is the
largest threat to
biodiversity and
ecosystem function
of any single human activity.”
United Nations Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment
37. wind and water erosion
due to removal of vegetative cover
and pulverization of soil by tillage,
livestock and machinery
soil salinization
due to flood irrigation
soil habitat disturbance
