Quotes by Thomas Archer

“Craft the finest arrowForage jungles for straightest shaftForge sharpest head of glass Pluck feathers of the wisest crowWithout the simplest archer and bowWithout a mark that's trueUselessCraft the finest vesselFell the jungle's strongest mastBuild the world's mightiest hullA flag the crown of all seas you can sewWithout the simplest oarsmen to row Without a port that's trueUseless””

“China's food comes from abroad: from South America, the United States and Australia. This means prosperity for agricultural traders and processors, like Archer Daniels Midland, which is making its way into China in every way imaginable, into a $ 100 billion domestic processed food market that is growing more than 10 percent annually. This translates into a windfall for farmers in the Midwest, who are now enjoying a two-thirds rise in the price of soybeans compared to a year ago. It also means a better diet for the Chinese, who have increased their caloric intake by a third over the past 25 years.””

“Thomas Seymour was executed on March 20, 1549. By some accounts, Elizabeth remarked, “This day died a man with much wit and very little judgment.” Unfortunately, she didn’t say it.””

“But then it was Thomas More who reminded us that when you don these robes you must be willing to make decisions that will rarely please all men. And indeed, my lords, on three such occasions in the past, the Lord Chancellor, having delivered his judgment, was later that day beheaded.’ The””

“El alimento de China proviene del exterior: de Sudamérica, de Estados Unidos y de Australia. Esto significa prosperidad para comerciantes y procesadores agrícolas, como Archer Daniels Midland, que se está introduciendo en China de todas las formas imaginables, en un mercado nacional de comida procesada de 100.000 millones de dólares, que crece más del 10 por ciento anual. Esto se traduce en una ganancia inesperada para los agricultores de la región central de Estados Unidos, que hoy disfrutan de la subida de dos tercios del precio de la soja, en comparación al de hace un año atrás. También significa una mejor dieta para los chinos, que han incrementado su consumo calórico en un tercio durante los últimos veinticinco años.””

“In the eighties, according to William Heffernan, a sociologist at the University of Missouri, agriculture experts generally agreed that if four companies controlled over 40 percent of market share in a given field, it was no longer competitive. Today, however, Heffernan estimates, the four largest players process 81 percent of the beef, 59 percent of the pork, and 50 percent of the chicken produced in the United States. The same phenomenon is at work in grain: the largest four process 61 percent of American wheat, 80 percent of American soybeans, and either 57 percent or 74 percent of American corn, depending on the method.33 It is no coincidence that the internal motto of Archer Daniels Midland, the grain-processing giant notorious for its political clout and its price-fixing, is reported to be “the competitor is our friend and the customer is our enemy.””