William Bligh Quotes

I wish anyone in this world could go to his fridge and pick whatever he wants. Because the day you open your fridge and there is nothing in it, it is difficult.

Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.

In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.

The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.

Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made.

I love to ride horses, hike in the woods with Juliette and appraise Longhorns.

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.

My favorite animal is steak.

Meat reared on land matures relatively quickly, and it takes only a few pounds of plants to produce a pound of meat.

The problem of the food price is structural. The growth of demand cannot be checked in that it is coming from middle income countries demanding more quality and more quantity of food. High demand is here to stay.

Besides Slayer, which is a full-time job, I raise animals. I have a ranch in Texas. My wife takes care of the animals when I'm on tour. When I get home, I become a ranch hand.

I have three cows, and I'm looking forward to more in the future, so I'll have a little herd.

Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

Beef is beef, you know. Beef comes, so Beef is real.

The second purchase was my ranch, Mockingbird Hill. The third purchase was Longhorn cattle.

When I grew up, we always had our chickens, and we ate our eggs, and we ate our chickens. The family always had a pig, and we would kill it at Christmas and eat it for three or four months afterwards.

We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be cheap to buy real food. But it can be affordable. It's really something that we need to understand. It's the kind of work that it takes to grow food. We don't understand that piece of it.

Our cattlemen have given us the safest, most abundant, most affordable beef supply in the world and I trust their judgment. And if you look at consumer confidence in this country, so does the American public.

There's the issue of hunger, and there's an issue of if you're going to cut out food programs. We should be focusing on healthy food. Right now, fruits and vegetables are very expensive. So what can we do on the policy side to bring the cost of fruits and vegetables down?

All presbyters, clerks, monks, converts, pilgrims, and peasants, when they are engaged in the labours of husbandry, together with their cattle in their ploughs, and the feed which they carry into the field, shall enjoy perfect security; and that all who molest tem, if they do not desist when they have been admonished, shall be excommunicated.

Cattle, horses, mules, asses... may be pastured on this land or place which is public property of the Roman people, … nor need anyone be charged tax or rental for this privilege.

The Pakistanis can get milk from a bull.

Meat is expensive. And who said you have to eat meat every single day! Eat eggplant!

To butcher a pork shoulder is to be forcibly reminded that this is the shoulder of a large mammal, made up of distinct groups of muscles with a purpose quite apart from feeding me. The work itself gives me a keener interest in the story of the hog: where it came from and how it found its way to my kitchen.