Food Accessibility Quotes

The federal government spends about $2.51 per child per day to feed them lunch. Out of that, you have to pay for labor, facilities, and administrative costs, leaving about a dollar for food. Imagine trying to feed yourself a nutritious meal every day with only a dollar. Very difficult.

Sustainability is important because we all are responsible to nourish our planet. And real food should be delicious, safe, affordable, and accessible to all. All without compromise.

To feed a nation is never easy!

The brutal fact is that which foods are available in your grocery store is determined by trade wars, agriculture policy, and the outsized power wielded by large corporations.

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.

Multinational food companies can play a large role in helping to prevent chronic diseases around the world by offering healthier choices in the United States and abroad.

I don't know too many parents that want to feed their kids soda, but high-fructose corn syrup is cheap. The price of soda in 20 years has gone down 40 percent while the price of whole foods, fruits and vegetables, has gone up 40 percent and obesity goes up right along that curve.

Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.

There are at least 1 billion people who struggle for basic caloric protein sufficiency; probably another 2 billion people … who have serious micronutrient deficiency… We don’t have a healthy food supply for the world, nor is it assured for the future.

Food: We have more of it and pay less for it than any other country in the world.

The first time I had a baked potato, I was eight years old at a friend's house. Most white kids growing up have a baked potato every day. I didn't even know what to do with it, how to open it. I was the only white kid in high school eating octopus.

In order to reduce the consumption of unhealthy foods, we should impose large snack taxes -- in the range of 5 to 10 percent

The first thing I feel like we have the potential to do is to deliver to consumers more roots to their home.

I'm doing my bit to encourage people to try vegan by making vegan food affordable and accessible and absolutely delicious.

Famine, it turns out, is not caused by a failure to produce food. It is caused by a failure to distribute food correctly — because the ruler is not accountable to the starving.

My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.

There's absolutely no doubt consumers have more choice than ever, and the standards of all that provide food have improved over time.

Jamie Oliver, quite rightly, was talking about trying to improve the diet of children in schools and improving school meals, but the net effect was the number of children eating school meals in many of these places didn't go up, it went down.

If you eat, you should be concerned about the people who are providing you with food.

The single most important problem with food in this country is that it is vastly overproduced.

Food is at the core of our lives in ways we don't always think about - how it affects our environment, how it affects our health and well-being, how it affects the expense of society, the expense of government.

We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.

I think food is very important to how we live as people and as families.

Community through food is my mission; it is what I do.

We struggle with eating healthily, obesity, and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food.