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21 " have striking memories of the first microbiology class I took. The instructor asked me and my classmates to place our hands on the agar gel in petri dishes that had been placed on our lab benches. A week later we returned to the lab to find our petri dishes contained gnarly black, yellow, white, and green furry monstrosities growing in the precise shape of our hands. That petri dish was easily the most vivid demonstration of the importance of hand washing I’ve ever seen. We "
― Jayson Lusk , Unnaturally Delicious: How Science and Technology are Serving Up Super Foods to Save the World
22 " When Walmart required its suppliers to adopt GFSI standards, many made significant investments and adopted more systematic and transparent food safety practices.27 Again, these are food companies that supply not only Walmart but other retailers as well. Yiannas "
23 " Not only are eggs nutritious, but it’s hard to imagine how we could make some foods without them. "
24 " Herbicide use has remained steady since 1980, and use of insecticides has fallen 77 percent since 1970, all while average pesticide toxicity has fallen dramatically.5 Agriculture is using half as much labor and 16 percent less land than in 1970 even though farmers are producing much more food.6 "
25 " Compared to the late 1970s, farmers now use 19 percent less feed, 33 percent less land, and 12 percent less water to produce a given quantity of beef while generating 19 percent less manure and creating a carbon footprint that is 16 percent smaller.9 U.S. "
26 " Given that Chipotle has removed from its menu most ingredients from genetically engineered plants, the reason Pinker gives for this optimism is a bit ironic: “Problems that look hopeless may not be; human ingenuity can chip away at them. We will never have a perfect world, but it’s not romantic or naïve to work toward a better one.”12 "
27 " Sometimes the scribes would leave their own feelings about their task in the margins of medieval documents with notes like “Oh, my hand,” “Thank God, it will soon be dark,” or “Now I’ve written the whole thing: for Christ’s sake give me a drink.”1 "