We don't really have any that protect the food supply from farm to table. We have a food safety system that's piecemeal, largely divided between two agencies that don't talk to each other very much. Neither agency can enforce regulations from the farm to the table.
We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.
For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.
The world, which God looked at and found entirely good, we find none too good to pollute entirely and destroy piecemeal.
[Science is] piecemeal revelation.
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying.
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.
Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!
The moonlight builds its cold chapel again out of piecemeal darkness.
It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch together piecemeal, and never to such kaleidoscopic effect.
We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life.
That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?
I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.
