What Your Food Ate Quotes

“Across the board, dietary advice typically focuses on what and how much to eat, with remarkably little attention paid to how farming practices influence the nutritional quality of food and whether the “right foods” pack the nutrients they once had.”
― David R. Montgomery, What Your Food Ate: How to Restore Our Land and Reclaim Our Health

“Plants themselves deliver glyphosate to their microbial helpers, as was found in soybeans that exuded the herbicide from their roots for several weeks after being sprayed. Delivering a broad-spectrum antibiotic to the rhizosphere—the home for microbial communities that provide nutrients to plants and keep pathogens at bay—is not exactly a recipe for improving soil health, crop health, or the nutrient density of food.”
― David R. Montgomery, What Your Food Ate: How to Restore Our Land and Reclaim Our Health