Frances Beinecke Quotes

There is no conflict between a better meal and a better world.

It is difficult to get organic food at most restaurants, so when possible, eat at home. When not, do your best.

I have a generally optimistic temperament and am thrilled by what I see as a rapidly growing food movement, especially among young people who care about how food is produced and what it does to their health and the environment.

How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.

Let's feed the world better food.

Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.

There's all kind of things going on in the world that I don't like but I can't change. But at least I can say, 'Change the way you eat!'

The health of the planet is at stake, because the cruelty and the waste that accompanies the slaughter of billions of animals each year literally infects us all. We could consume healthy plant-based food produced at almost infinitely less cost. What does that say, really, about us and what we're doing... to animals and to ourselves?

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.

Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by.

Healthy, sustainable food production methods give us food that is nutritionally better and with fewer pesticides, antibiotics, and hormones.

Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig.

I'm perfectly happy to eat organic food, but if I choose to pay more for it, I don't pat myself on the back ethically. Quite the reverse. I think I'm actually being quite greedy, because what I'm doing is essentially saying, 'I want more land to be devoted to growing my food.'

I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.

The biggest thing you can do is understand that every time you're going to the grocery store, you're voting with your dollars. Support your farmers' market. Support local food. Really learn to cook.

The act of eating is very political. You buy from the right people, you support the right network of farmers and suppliers who care about the land and what they put in the food.

I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.

We want our communities to know what real food is.

Twenty-first-century food is going to be real food. Real food is food that is truly nourishing for the consumer, the community, and the planet.

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

If we pursue organic farming as our healthy food style, we can bring down cost of treatment to a great extent.

There is a growing market today for local, organic foods produced by small farmers. And farmers' markets have played a large role in making that happen.

Beef should be organic and grass-fed; fish should be wild, not farm raised.