Food Deserts Quotes

I know how it feels to go hungry.

Hunger is the most influential disease.

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.

I participate in the SNAP Challenge to raise awareness about the millions of people in our communities who struggle with hunger on a daily basis despite living in the most prosperous nation ever known.

Working-class and poor urban Americans are not benefiting economically from our current food system. It relies too much on transportation, chemical fertilization, big use of water, and also refrigeration.

Hunger has no ideology. It does not respond to party or to rant. Hunger, in short, is not a red state/blue state problem.

There's a lot of children that go to bed every night hungry in New York City, and it's shameful. That's really disturbing to me.

It occurred to me that there wouldn't be world hunger, if you people would MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!

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

Too many Americans are getting sick on our over-commercialized food system.

The industrial food system ships in high-calorie, low-nutrient, processed food from thousands of miles away. It leaves us disconnected from our food and the people who grow it.

When you actually integrate the health savings from an improved food system, eliminating food deserts, ensuring that everyone can afford a healthy diet, that you don't have to be sort of a person of substantial means in order to have access to healthy food, there are remarkable health improvements.

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

The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.

People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

Hunger is not debatable.

Food poverty comes in two strands. The first is not having enough money to buy food for yourself and your family. The second is poverty of education.

In America no one should go hungry.

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

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

The worst food comes to the poor, which their poverty makes them buy and their necessity makes them eat. Their stomachs are the waste-basket of the State. It is their lot to swallow all the adulterations on the market.

just because people are fat, it doesn't mean they are well fed. The cheapest foods are the fattening ones, not the most nourishing.

While the surfeit of cheap calories that the U.S. food system has produced since the late 1970s may have taken food prices off the political agenda, this has come at a steep cost to public health.

With the growth of both urbanization and globalization, consumers are becoming increasingly disconnected from their food.

A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.