Michael Pollan

If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook our food, we're going to have a huge, industrialized, monoculture agriculture because big likes to buy from big. So I realized, wow, how we cook or whether we cook has a huge bearing on what kind of agriculture we're going to have.

American Educator

Taj Mahal

It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.

American Musician

Tristram Stuart

The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and a barren land for birds.

English Author

Tad Williams

Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.

American Writer

George M. Church

The one thing that is bad for society is low diversity. If you become a monoculture, you are at great risk of perishing. Therefore, the recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance.

American Scientist

Robert Christgau

When I grew up, there was a monoculture. Everybody listened to the same music on the radio. I miss monoculture. I think it's good for people to have a shared experience.

American Journalist

Bernardo Bertolucci

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

Italian Writer

David Starkey

Most of Britain is a monoculture. You think London is Britain, it isn't.

English Historian

Monoculture in agriculture typically prioritizes efficiency but can impact biodiversity negatively.

Agricultural Focus

A monoculture crop is susceptible to disease, as there is no genetic variation to prevent spread.

Vulnerability Risks

Regions that rely on monoculture may face economic risks if the single crop fails.

Economic Dependence

Monoculture in a social context implies an absence of variety and can stifle creativity.

Lack of Diversity

A societal monoculture may enforce conformity, discouraging individuality.

Conformity Pressure

Use 'monoculture' to critically discuss lack of diversity in contexts like workplaces or media.

Critical Perspectives

 and it will help, you know, the soil to be So it's permaculture but to, you know, very old ways of permaculture. They harvest parsley, which is a very ancient plant from that part of the world too. They practice polyculture there's not going to be massive monoculture it's always mixed around there.

We Are What We Eat:...

 They've become an essential part of our food system. As populations have grown, monoculture, single crop farming, has helped us feed people efficiently. But it's also left our food vulnerable to extensive attack by pests. In turn, we've become more dependent on pesticides.

Do we really need...

 Notice how there were no sounds of birds or insects. The songs of biodiversity are gone. That's because what you're hearing is not an ecosystem. It's a monoculture of one single tree species planted for rapid tree growth. Along with the biodiversity that used to live here,

The global movement to...

 The use of high fructose corn syrup may be a contributor to diabetes and obesity. And the rise of monoculture farming has left our food supply dangerously vulnerable to pests and pathogens— a single virus could infect the world’s supply of this ubiquitous crop.

The history of the world...

 We object to genetically engineered food. Why do we do that? Well, the things I constantly hear Too many chemicals, pesticides, hormones, monoculture, we don't want giant fields of the same thing, that's wrong. We don't companies patenting life.

The danger of science...

 people how to do a planting how to properly secure the roots so that it's touching soil we can't mow everything into oblivion we can't herbicide everything into a monoculture we really have to maintain the diversity out there because that

How to Create Your Own...

 hives of bees into the almond orchards, for pollination, and also because the pollen in an almond blossom is really high in protein. It's really good for bees. Now, the scale of almond monoculture demands that most of our nation's bees,

Marla Spivak: Why bees...

 constantly hear are too many chemicals pesticides hormones monoculture we don't want giant fields of the same thing that's wrong we don't want companies patenting life we don't want companies owning seeds and you know what my

 we're processing that information. We're making that our own, and we are learning much more actively than when we were just transcribing what was being said. Fifth, get security through diversity. Monoculture can be deadly.

The paradox of...

 but quite seriously, it was a statement to me that one thing that you do, sort of, see is the aggressive nature of the industrial world has produced -- kind of, large masses of things, and when you -- in monoculture,