Whitney MacMillan Quotes

Without food, we cannot survive, and that is why issues that affect the food industry are so important.

Chefs are at the end of a long chain of individuals who work hard to feed people. Farmers, beekeepers, bakers, scientists, fishermen, grocers, we are all part of that chain, all food people, all dedicated to feeding the world.

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.

The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

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.

A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.

In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.

The problem is not actual number of calories we are producing - we have food waste issues. The problem is industrial food.

It's so easy to produce food, throw it away, and watch people starve. It's so hard to produce food mindfully and to feed and to reduce waste.

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.

The time has come to recognize that food, how we produce it, process it, package it, sell it, cook it and eat it, is as important as any other issue.

Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.

There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

In Britain, the big supermarkets dominate our food chain. British supermarkets are some of the best in the world at controlling, manipulating and delivering cheap food.

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

As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global food system begged further investigation.

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.

You've got a global food problem. You've got a food problem in the United States. You've got a food problem in Africa... in Asia. And so the truth is, the U.S. is going to have to produce more, on not very many more acres, honestly. And so we're going to have to do a better job.

To feed a nation is never easy!

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

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