Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.


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It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say....
MICHAEL JACKSON
Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the ...
MICHAEL JACKSON
I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
MICHAEL JACKSON
But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.
MICHAEL JACKSON
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everyt...
MICHAEL JACKSON
I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.
MICHAEL JACKSON
Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.
MICHAEL PORTER
That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!
MICHAEL STRAHAN
I might be 'Candid Camera's number one fan.
MICHAEL CARBONARO
To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnersh...
MICHAEL BURGESS
I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and...
MICHAEL JORDAN
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the...
MICHAEL CONNELLY
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
MICHAEL KORDA
I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and d...
MICHAEL JACKSON
In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as i...
MICHAEL KORDA
I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to repl...
MICHAEL OWEN
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyo...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF
I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.
MICHAEL OVITZ
It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that ar...
MICHAEL JORDAN
Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? N...
MICHAEL JORDAN
I've never been afraid to fail.
MICHAEL JORDAN
There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.
MICHAEL JORDAN
I don't want to be the flavor, the passing thing that the girls scream at. I think that it's...
MICHAEL BUBLE
Yauch was a gifted MC.
MICHAEL DIAMOND
Yauch was great at lacking fear.
MICHAEL DIAMOND
I believed, up to last week, that Adam was somehow coming back. But I wouldn't trade that optimi...
MICHAEL DIAMOND
The sport of shooting is my life.
MICHAEL DIAMOND
Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
MICHAEL DIAMOND
Honestly achieved results surpass all others.
MICHAEL DIAMOND
I find that it's best to take one step at a time and cross each bridge as they come to you.
MICHAEL STUHLBARG
I hate leg exercises. I hate one-legged squats. I hate the hurdles and the split squats. I hate all ...
MICHAEL STRAHAN
Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS
Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Net...
MICHAEL CAINE
I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.
MICHAEL JACKSON
What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, esca...
MICHAEL LEUNIG
There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS
I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to b...
MICHAEL NUTTER
In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, st...
MICHAEL HANEKE
Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your thr...
MICHAEL ROOKER
The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle...
MICHAEL LEUNIG