From "Heirloom Chile Peppers and Climate Change" by Gary Paul Nabhan

"Of course, we will lose more than a few pods of peppers here and there should such trends continue. We will lose not only farms, but farmers as well. We will lose not only culinary traditions, but entire American cultures as we know them today. We will have lived through the final rupture between our sense of place and our sense of taste."

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Nabhan, Gary Paul. "Heirloom Chile Peppers and Climate Change." Moral Ground. Kathleen Dean Moore & Michael P. Nelson. Ed. San Antonio, Texas: Trinity University Press, 2010. p. 117. Print.