Josette Sheeran Quotes

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.

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

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

Foreign investors producing food in a country full of hungry people face another political is how to get the grain out. Will villagers permit trucks laden with grain headed for cities to proceed when they themselves are on the verge of starvation.

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

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

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.

When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee designated me the recipient of the 1970 award for my contribution to the 'green revolution,' they were in effect, I believe, selecting an individual to symbolize the vital role of agriculture and food production in a world that is hungry, both for bread and for peace.

Food security is a global problem, with real and immediate effects on national security.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

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

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.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

The right use of food can end hunger.

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.

'Generation Food' is a collaboration between myself and author/activist Raj Patel that will tell stories about efforts around the world to try to solve the food crisis - through a documentary, a book, a website and mobile apps.

I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

The free press is good on major disasters like classic famines, but it tolerates chronic hunger as much as anyone else.

Every second of every day there are three new mouths to feed in this world.

If you don't eat, don't worry about the farmer.

Starvation does not await the outcome of power politics.

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?

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.