"Everything we eat is processed sunshine"

“Everything we eat is processed sunshine” is a one-line saying that has been printed on many images. The St. Louis (MO) Post-Dispatch reported in 2001 that an organic farmer sold T-shirts saying, “We sell processed sunshine—eat it or freeze it within 24 hours.” “Very pleased with the thought that everything we eat is actually processed sunshine” was posted on Twitter on March 5, 2010.

“Everything we eat is processed sunshine” was posted on Reddit—Shower Thoughts on March 4, 2014.

15 June 2001, St. Louis (MO) Post-Dispatch, “Organic Farmers Seek Strong Links Between Growers, Buyers” by Jim Gertz, pg. C7, col. 3:
“We have a T-shirt that says, ‘We sell processed sunshine—eat it or freeze it within 24 hours.’”
(Walter Gregory, who operates a grass-fed beef and poultry operation in Dow, in Jersey County.—ed.)

Twitter
Laura Howe‏
@areyoulaura
very pleased with the thought that everything we eat is actually processed sunshine 😊
7:28 AM - 5 Mar 2010

Twitter
muad’dib‏
@mj_taylor22
Everything we eat, when you think about it, is processed sunshine.
9:59 PM - 4 Mar 2014

Twitter
E_is_for_Epic‏
@ErinNWind
Everything we eat is processed sunshine
11:24 PM - 4 Mar 2014

Reddit—Shower Thoughts
Everything we eat is processed sunshine.
submitted March 4, 2014 by GaslightProphet
The sun shines down on the earth, and plants process the energy from the light into new components that hold sugars throughout them. Animals eat those plants, processing the components and sugars into different components and different sugars. We eat those animals, and in doing so take energy that comes from the sun and has been processed through plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria.
I subsist entirely off a steady diet of sun.

ViralNova
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21. Everything we eat is processed sunshine.

BuzzFeed
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BuzzFeed Staff, UK
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15. EVERYTHING WE EAT IS PROCESSED SUNSHINE

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Chef Faker
June 25, 2017 ·
everything we eat is processed sunshine