Ralph Merkle Quotes

No one has starved.

If Victual should prove scarce, as we have not Goods or Money for any Value to send out for Corns [food grains like wheat]; so only a part of the People could be maintained: The better part would have Bread, but the more necessary part, the Laboring Men would be forced to leave the Country, or to starve in it.

The whole district seemed swept of food and a third of the population would be without food at Christmas, two thirds starving before February and by May 1848, there would be a total starvation.

In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.

There are 6 million people in the world. With organic farming, we will only be able to feed 4 billion of them. Which 2 billion will volunteer to die?

Hold your kids from eating for 3 or 4 days, and see what they tell you on the 5th day. Hunger is a bad thing.

It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.

I do think we have a food problem. In 2006, which is the year for which we have the latest data, 35.5 million Americans were food insecure. That means there are 35.5 million Americans who are so hard up at some point during the year that they didn't know where their next meal was coming from. That's a lot of Americans. They don't get reported very much because there's nothing spectacular about people skipping a meal because they're poor. The media tends to ignore that, just as it ignores the sort of chronic food shortages elsewhere in the world.

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.

Kelly, there are people in Somalia who would die for a banana.

I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's.

And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

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.

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.

The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.

There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant.

A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.