Daniel Pauly Quotes

We must plant the sea and herd its animals ... using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about -- farming replacing hunting.

For meat, I eat mostly high-quality fish and chicken.

The time has come to recognize that food, how we produce it, process it, package it, sell it, cook it and eat it, is as important as any other issue.

I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.

I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.

Mackerel is sustainable and healthy.

You need a good gardener and a good fisherman. The cook is not required.

The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.

My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.

In the Netherlands - where I come from - you actually never see a pig, which is really strange, because, in a population of 16 million people, we have 12 million pigs. And well, of course, the Dutch can't eat all these pigs. They eat about one-third, and the rest is exported to all kinds of countries in Europe and the rest of the world.

I like working with fish, so naturally I like seafood.

What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.

We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely - or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to eating them.

I eat a lot of chicken with salad or salmon with salad.

Dinner for me is usually some version of chicken or fish - I love salmon - with grilled vegetables and salad.

Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

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.

The human body needs air, water and food. Only the good Lord makes air and water. Only farmers and ranchers make food.

She has a fertile soil, and genial climate; she has [vast] forests and abundant fisheries, unlimited water power, pastures upon which even during winter, innumerable flocks and herds can subsist, with no other care than the mere herding; and prairies which could with only moderate labor, furnish the whole of our Pacific Territories with bread.

Fish farming is growing faster than any other form of food production, and today, the commercially sold fish in the world and have of U. S. seafood comes from aquaculture.

Eat a wide variety of species.

I'm a chicken and fish guy, but I throw a burger in once, maybe twice a week.

America's ranchers and farmers produce the highest-quality products in the world.

Thank you to our farmers for all you do to keep food on our tables.