#chain

Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner; cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food chain to not caring–to the carelessness of both producers and consumers that characterizes our economy today. Of course, the global economy couldn't very well function without this wall of ignorance and the indifference it breeds. This is why the American food industry and its international counterparts fight to keep their products from telling even the simplest stories–"dolphin safe," "humanely slaughtered," etc.–about how they were produced. The more knowledge people have about the way their food is produced, the more likely it is that their values–and not just "value"–will inform their purchasing decisions. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#dilemma #food-chain #food-regulation #food-safety #ignorance

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#capitalism #chains #class #crush #emancipate

This led to the discovery that long chain fatty acids would remarkably stabilize serum albumin to heat denaturation, and would even reverse the denaturation by heat or concentrated urea solutions. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#chain #concentrated #discovery #even #fatty

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#believe #chain #compel #disbelieve #ever

Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs. ↗

— John Doerr

#better #big #big deal #bugs #chain

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#chained #even #free #sky

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#beyond #chain #civilization #ends #enter

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#chained #greatest #hounded #imprisoned #nevertheless

I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid. ↗

— Paris Hilton

#capable #chain #doing #everything #hotel

If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light. ↗

— Tobe Hooper

#american #chainsaw #different #different kind #first