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The founder of Cascadian Farms in Washington state. Kahn began Cascadian Farms as a small family farm in 1971 as part of the original organic movement, and he later sold the farm to General Mills. Kahn is a proponent of compromise within the organic food system, believing in the need to scale up and partner with big business to improve the system from within.
Gene Kahn Quotes in The Omnivore’s Dilemma
The The Omnivore’s Dilemma quotes below are all either spoken by Gene Kahn or refer to Gene Kahn . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 9
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You have a choice of getting sad about all that or moving on. We tried hard to build a cooperative community and a local food system, but at the end of the day it wasn’t successful. This is just lunch for most people. Just lunch. We can call it sacred, we can talk about communion, but it’s just lunch.
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Gene Kahn Quotes in The Omnivore’s Dilemma
The The Omnivore’s Dilemma quotes below are all either spoken by Gene Kahn or refer to Gene Kahn . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 9
Quotes
You have a choice of getting sad about all that or moving on. We tried hard to build a cooperative community and a local food system, but at the end of the day it wasn’t successful. This is just lunch for most people. Just lunch. We can call it sacred, we can talk about communion, but it’s just lunch.
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