Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.

We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.

If you want government food, go to the supermarket and buy government food. But for those who want to have a relationship with their food, and the accountability that inherently comes with voluntarily and informatively opting out of the supermarket to go ask around, smell around, sniff around, look around and opt out of the government food system, they ought to have that right.

The bigger issue here is, to me, that when we can't access our neighbors with food, then farming just dries up. The fact is that all these hurdles that prohibit local food commerce keep what would be millions of dollars circulating in the rural local economy are therefore denied to the local economy. So farmers go out of business and sell to developers.

The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.

You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.