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…

- Raj Patel

For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food.

- Raj Patel

Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.

- Raj Patel

Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture.' What susta…

- Raj Patel

The problem is that we are living now with the consequences of the others people mistake. It would be nice to make our own and learn from them. That …

- Raj Patel

Generosity makes us happiest. We'll be happier people when we share, not when we impose, but when we learn from one another. Because when I'm connect…

- Raj Patel

The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity.

- Raj Patel

The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.

- Raj Patel

Far from being a “luxury for the rich,” organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone.

- Raj Patel