Nell Newman
Nell Newman
Elinor Teresa Newmanis a former child actress who performed under the name of Nell Potts. She is an environmentalist, biologist, and a prominent supporter of sustainable agriculture, who became an entrepreneur when she founded an organic food and pet food production company, Newman's Own Organics...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth8 April 1959
CountryUnited States of America
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Basically, what we've done is, every year we take half the money and allow people who've helped us in the industry to give it away. One year, the ladies who put the pretzel bags in the boxes got to give it away.
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My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them.
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It's so gratifying to see people face to face who get to meet the people who are giving them a fair price for their work. They can now provide medical support for their kids, give them better education and in general have a better standard of living. God knows they deserve it.
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Education is very important, and the botanical garden is the place to do that. I grew up in a semi-rural area and learned from that being my playground.
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Barley malt has a really deep, rich taste. A lot of manufacturers have switched over to corn syrup over the years because it's a cheaper sweetener, but it doesn't have the flavor.
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Adopting big-business practices is one thing, and adopting agribusiness practices that would dilute the meaning of 'organic' is another. On the whole, I think we're doing a pretty good job of preserving the integrity of organic foods.
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When I was at home, I always cooked, and I usually cook over all the holidays. I always used organic.
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When I come in from the beach at night, I'm too hungry to wait for anything that takes very long.
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What I discovered was that just by eating normally, we all have background levels of contaminants.
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My dad hates doing PR, so I volunteered to do this for him.
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It's become more readily apparent that we need to be growing our own food and growing more things organically.
It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.
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I want our company to leave a legacy of learning to find the balance between what's good and what's good for you.
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I used to tell people my father was a plumber, because that would mean we had a normal life.