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Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would ...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a ...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a rumina...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the ...

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Michael PollanThe Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were ...

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This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

In this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation,...

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By means of industry and perseverance you will rise higher and higher.

God's will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for ...

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We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well...

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The more we do the more we can do the more busy we are the more leisure we have.

Ultimately a regulation is a signal of design failure...it is what we call a license to harm: a perm...

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William McDonoughCradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work.

I spent the two and one-half months between my meeting with the Art Commission and the beginning of ...

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While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute ...

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You know the proverb, Mr. Hale, 'set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil' - well, som...

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There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or o...

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I consider it extremely doubtful whether the happiness of the human race has been enhanced by the te...

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Miss Millick wondered just what had happened to Mr. Wran. He kept making the strangest remarks when ...

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Fritz LeiberAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the...

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The parallel between these animals sick from surplus value and humans sick from industrial concentra...

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We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the cont...

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Jeffrey Moussaieff MassonThe Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food

Industry and determination, Mister Kettle, can transform the difficult into the routine," Grimm said...

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When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man...

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And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in socie...

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Aside from communications satellites, space is devoid of industry.

All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

The only constant in the technology industry is change.