Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

People don't realize that we're spending money throwing food away rather than feeding people.

It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.

I wish anyone in this world could go to his fridge and pick whatever he wants. Because the day you open your fridge and there is nothing in it, it is difficult.

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old problems we've dealt with for 60,000 years.

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

We must labour to create the grain to feed people with. All other needs that we have are secondary; there is only one physical distress, and that is hunger.

This year alone, total world cereal production was estimated to be 2,114 million tons, while total cereal demand was projected at around 1007 million tones, less than half of the cereal production. Ideally, no one should starve or die of hunger in the world we live. Strangely and sadly enough, they do. This is not fair. This is not right.

When there is enough food to feed everyone, why are 870 million people going hungry? We must learn to share what we have; no one race or nation has a greater right to life than another.

Hunger is an issue that I've cared about for a very long time and is incredibly personal and important to me.

We have been growing more food than we need since the '60s... what we have is a terrible distribution problem.

Food is such a basic need, and it is unfathomable to me that people still do not have adequate access.

This culture of waste has made us insensitive even to the waste and disposal of food, which is even more despicable when all over the world, unfortunately, many individuals and families are suffering from hunger and malnutrition.

In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.

In this country that grows more food than any other nation on this earth, it is unthinkable that any child should go hungry.

Our great country is rich and abundant in so many ways. It is totally unacceptable to me that we have children and families going hungry!

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.

... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.