Access to Healthy Food Quotes

No Ohio family should be forced to go hungry during the holidays or any time.

My politics are food-related - food banks, the living wage, zero hour contracts - and my food is political.

When I was at school, you could tell the demography of children by how thin they were. You could see by looking at their eyes.

If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you'll never have heard of Bill Gates.

I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.

I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.

I love the accessibility that my great nation affords us, but it is virtually inescapable for most people in America, and many places abroad, to rely on inexpensive yet unhealthy meals as a main source of sustenance.

I live in a world where I want everyone to be able to put beurre blanc on the table for dinner.

I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.

If you live in poor neighborhoods - I know from living in several poor neighborhoods - the worst supermarkets in the city are in the poorest neighborhoods, where people don't have cars.

Eating well is a class issue.

I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things I am truly grateful for. I'm not kidding. You can't ask a single mother of three working two jobs for minimum wage to eat that way. I am lucky.

Actually if you were to buy a bag of dried lentils it would cost you a couple of quid. Some people don't have that to spend in the first place. And not everyone wants to eat lentils.

One of the richest countries in the history of the world having communities where people have to go over half an hour to get to fresh produce and food is unacceptable.

If people were able to afford to eat nutritious food, I think they would make better choices.

I didn't eat at many restaurants when I was younger. There wasn't much in South Central anyways, except for fast food joints.

The San Gabriel Valley, stretching from Pasadena to Pomona, is especially starved for open space. The valley has a rich array of ethnically diverse communities, but it also has some of the highest rates of childhood obesity and diabetes in the state.

Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can't make a healthy choice.

All kids should be able to have healthy food to eat and should not have to worry about when their next meal will be.

We need a grassroots movement and government policies and programs to change the food landscape and the built environment to give our children a chance to have happy, healthy successful lives.

Sometimes there's cities where it's just hard to find healthy food. You just have to be prepared.

If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.

It's so important to that we go into the public schools and we feed all of the kids something that is really good for them.