Food Surplus Quotes

Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!

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.

In the 1950s, as food rationing ended, I remember a plentiful supply of sweets for the first time.

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

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.

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

Grapes are grown in such profusion in the Southern and Western States that I have seen damaged bunches thrown to the pigs. Americans find it difficult to understand how highly this fruit is prized in England.

Each year-in the fields, commercial kitchens, markets, stores, and restaurants-millions of pounds of food go to waste... We need to find ways to get this food into the mouths of the hungry and not into the mouth of the dumpster.

Supermarkets didn't even want to talk to me about how much food they were wasting. I'd been round the back. I'd seen bins full of food being locked and then trucked off to landfill sites, and I thought, surely there is something more sensible to do with food than waste it.

These [food] surpluses can be made a far more potent means of combating the spread of Communism than the hydrogen bomb.

We Americans have food in massive oversupply. That oversupply has crushed farm prices. We must dispose of the surpluses in order to strengthen prices, and we should dispose of them by feeding the starving and hungry overseas and the malnourished at home.

I would serve the food for the students in my school and in return I will get some more upma. At times, I would even take the food home.

A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.

Every week, I heave open a supermarket skip and find therein a more exotic shopping list of items than I could possibly have invented - Belgian chocolates, ripe bananas, almond croissants, stone-ground raisin bread - often so much it would have fed a hundred people.