Will Hurd Quotes

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

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

The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.

Food security is not only a matter of humanitarian assistance and agricultural development; it is a matter of national security, peace and stability.

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

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

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

We must labour to create the grain to feed people with. All other needs that we have are secondary; there is only one physical distress, and that is hunger.

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 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.

Food insecurity is not remotely the same as hunger.

To ensure food security for all, we should be clear about the definition of the problem, the precise index of measuring impact and the road map to achieve the goal.

Food is such a basic need, and it is unfathomable to me that people still do not have adequate access.

In this country that grows more food than any other nation on this earth, it is unthinkable that any child should go hungry.

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.

I wish anyone in this world could go to his fridge and pick whatever he wants. Because the day you open your fridge and there is nothing in it, it is difficult.

The right use of food can end hunger.

In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks; we now need to support the providers.

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.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

If you eat, you should be concerned about the people who are providing you with food.

You can’t make progress in any of the other problems in the world if people are undernourished.