Jack Monroe Quotes

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.

A hungry man is not a free man. Freedom from hunger is a fundamental right. Without this freedom, such fundamental right cannot exist.

Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Yet today 50 percent of the world’s population goes hungry. Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

Hunger is the worst form of deprivation of a human being. Although inability to access food is the immediate cause of hunger, the real cause in most of the incidents of hunger is lack of ability to pay for food. If we are looking for ways to end hunger then we should be looking at ways to ensure a reasonable level of income for all

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

A vacation from school should not mean hunger for our children.

There's the issue of hunger, and there's an issue of if you're going to cut out food programs. We should be focusing on healthy food. Right now, fruits and vegetables are very expensive. So what can we do on the policy side to bring the cost of fruits and vegetables down?

You can’t make progress in any of the other problems in the world if people are undernourished.

There is plenty of corn in Castile, but he who has none, starves.

No one in the country is actually starving.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

People don’t eat in the long run, Senator, they eat every day.

There are 6 million people in the world. With organic farming, we will only be able to feed 4 billion of them. Which 2 billion will volunteer to die?

Food security is not only a matter of humanitarian assistance and agricultural development; it is a matter of national security, peace and stability.

Even if we could produce enough food globally to feed everyone satisfactorily, the continued steady rise in the cost of inputs will mean increasing numbers will not be able to afford the food we produce. This is a key point that is often missed.

Foreign investors producing food in a country full of hungry people face another political is how to get the grain out. Will villagers permit trucks laden with grain headed for cities to proceed when they themselves are on the verge of starvation.

If, at the end of my mandate, all Brazilians have the possibility to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, I will have fulfilled the mission of my life.

I'm very concerned about U.S. food policy.

I simply believe that food is a human right.

I certainly didn't grow up ever having to worry about where my next meal was coming from. The fact that so many people, even in our own country, worry about something so basic, it's something I really wanted to help to do something about.

Food insecurity is not remotely the same as hunger.

The Safe and Affordable Food Labeling Act aims to address unnecessary impediments to feeding the world.

As a member of the Feeding America Entertainment Council, I recognize our mission to spread the word and rally the country in the fight to end hunger.

We don't need to cure hunger - we know how to solve hunger - it's food, it's nutrition, and it's really a question of access.