# The Good Food Revolution  ## Metadata - Author:: [[Will Allen]] - Full Title:: The Good Food Revolution - Category: #books ## Highlights > Between 1995 and 2010, American farmers received about $262 billion in federal subsidies. And the wealthiest 10 percent of farmers received 74 percent of those subsidies. Almost two-thirds of American farmers didn’t receive any subsidies at all. ([Location 106](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006OHEX38&location=106)) - Note: Growing Power > Last year the revenues of the fast food industry were about $168 billion, an impressive sum. But estimates of the cost of foodborne illnesses in the United States and of the nation’s obesity epidemic, as calculated by researchers at Georgetown and Emory universities, are even higher. Those two costs alone add up to about $320 billion. By any rational measure, this industrial food system isn’t profitable or self-sufficient. ([Location 109](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006OHEX38&location=109)) > One recent study has shown that a two-thousand-calorie diet can cost as little as $3.50 a day if it consists entirely of junk food, while healthy foods that are not as energy dense can cost more than ten times as much. ([Location 2205](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006OHEX38&location=2205)) - Note: 2k calories of junk food costs as little as $3.50/day > A finished worm compost bin held eight hundred pounds of worm castings. I sold bags of these castings as organic fertilizer for $2 a pound. ([Location 2529](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006OHEX38&location=2529)) > Milwaukee Black Gold Tea. We dried the castings and placed them in large tea bags with green sand and a little honey. A customer added a gallon of water to this product, allowed it to leach overnight, and then had a very effective liquid fertilizer. These Milwaukee Black Gold Tea bags used only a half pound of worm castings and sold for $10. I used the tea and castings on my own plants, and I had never experienced such intensive fertility. A single worm bin could yield several thousand dollars in products before expenses. ([Location 2530](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006OHEX38&location=2530)) > There is potential with organic waste for energy production. At least one-quarter to a half of the fresh food that we create in this country is thrown out before it is eaten—enough food waste, as the author Jonathan Bloom has pointed out, to fill the Rose Bowl in Pasadena every day. ([Location 3343](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006OHEX38&location=3343)) > I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. ([Location 3592](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006OHEX38&location=3592)) # The Good Food Revolution  ## Metadata - Author:: [[Will Allen]] - Full Title:: The Good Food Revolution - Category: #books ## Highlights > Between 1995 and 2010, American farmers received about $262 billion in federal subsidies. And the wealthiest 10 percent of farmers received 74 percent of those subsidies. Almost two-thirds of American farmers didn’t receive any subsidies at all. ([Location 106](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006OHEX38&location=106)) - Note: Growing Power > Last year the revenues of the fast food industry were about $168 billion, an impressive sum. But estimates of the cost of foodborne illnesses in the United States and of the nation’s obesity epidemic, as calculated by researchers at Georgetown and Emory universities, are even higher. Those two costs alone add up to about $320 billion. By any rational measure, this industrial food system isn’t profitable or self-sufficient. ([Location 109](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006OHEX38&location=109)) > One recent study has shown that a two-thousand-calorie diet can cost as little as $3.50 a day if it consists entirely of junk food, while healthy foods that are not as energy dense can cost more than ten times as much. ([Location 2205](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006OHEX38&location=2205)) - Note: 2k calories of junk food costs as little as $3.50/day > A finished worm compost bin held eight hundred pounds of worm castings. I sold bags of these castings as organic fertilizer for $2 a pound. ([Location 2529](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006OHEX38&location=2529)) > Milwaukee Black Gold Tea. We dried the castings and placed them in large tea bags with green sand and a little honey. A customer added a gallon of water to this product, allowed it to leach overnight, and then had a very effective liquid fertilizer. These Milwaukee Black Gold Tea bags used only a half pound of worm castings and sold for $10. I used the tea and castings on my own plants, and I had never experienced such intensive fertility. A single worm bin could yield several thousand dollars in products before expenses. ([Location 2530](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006OHEX38&location=2530)) > There is potential with organic waste for energy production. At least one-quarter to a half of the fresh food that we create in this country is thrown out before it is eaten—enough food waste, as the author Jonathan Bloom has pointed out, to fill the Rose Bowl in Pasadena every day. ([Location 3343](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006OHEX38&location=3343)) > I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. ([Location 3592](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B006OHEX38&location=3592))