Food Inequality Quotes

The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.

In a union of equals, there can be no second-class consumers. I will not accept that in some parts of Europe, people are sold food of lower quality than in other countries, despite the packaging and branding being identical.

I know how it feels to go hungry.

Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.

Hunger is the most influential disease.

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 any culture where a proportion of people can obtain protein from animal sources, beans will be reviled as food fit only for peasants.

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.

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 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.

It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.

I think we have cultural bias and practice some ethnocentrism when it comes to ethnic food in America.

In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why we are allowing this carnage to continue

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

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.

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

One of the effects of cheap food is, we have food that is so unsatisfactory. We need to go back to flavor.

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.

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.

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

The man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine.

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

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

Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted, picked, or harvested by a farm worker. Why is it that the people who do the most sacred work in our nation are the most oppressed, the most exploited?