Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.
I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.
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.
Food: We have more of it and pay less for it than any other country in the world.
I have the restaurant, too. I serve Southwest, barbecue.
Go to the farmers market and buy food there. You'll get something that's delicious. It's discouraging that this seems like such an elitist thing. It's not. It's just that we have to pay the real cost of food. People have to understand that cheap food has been subsidized. We have to realize that it's important to pay farmers up front, because they are taking care of the land.
I make food as affordable as possible.
A lot of money could be saved if we ate urban wildlife.
New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap.
Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they're charging a lot of money for this stuff.
A tuna steak and a salad? Seventy bucks. Welcome to Los Angeles.
We have to get money. We have no choice. It cost money to eat.
I probably spend more on food than a lot of people, and I feel good about the whole food chain I'm supporting when I'm doing it. But even I have to remind myself. I'm always complaining about the prices at the farmer's market.
Friday was Atlanta. That was fifteen bucks. Once a month, we made a six hundred mile trip from Indianapolis down to Atlanta, and at fifteen dollars, by the time you feed yourself and buy gasoline, you're minus about ten bucks.
Meat is undoubtedly an environmentally expensive food. Large animals have inherently low efficiency of converting feed to muscle, and only modern broilers can be produced with less than two units of feed per unit of meat.
Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You are feeding people, but you are not really feeding people.
The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
You piss me off you Salmon... You're too expensive in restaurants.
I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.
If we pursue organic farming as our healthy food style, we can bring down cost of treatment to a great extent.
We need to realize that these industrial methods of farming have gotten us used to cheap food. The corollary of cheap food is low wages. What we need to do in an era when the price of food is going up is pay better wages. A living wage is an absolutely integral part of a modern food system, because you can't expect people to eat properly and eat in a sustainable way if you pay them nothing. In fact, it's cheap food that subsidized the exploitation of American workers for a very long time, and that's always been an aim of cheap food.
It's not that hard to eat well if you're willing to put a little more time into it, a little more thoughtfulness into it and, yes, a little bit more money.
I think it's very expensive to not eat healthy. Eating healthy is the only affordable option we have left.
Some opponents of GMO labeling claim that disclosing genetically modified ingredients will increase food prices. But every shopper knows food companies routinely change their labels to make new claims and highlight innovations.
A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much.
