Steve James Quotes

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.

As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.

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

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

The Safe and Affordable Food Labeling Act aims to address unnecessary impediments to feeding the world.

We want to ensure that food is traded better, farmers get a better price, and consumers are able to access it at affordable prices.

Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.

Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.

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

There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and how food is made, where it's coming from, how much to consume. There are so many layers to it.

In 2010, I created World Central Kitchen as a way to try and help find solutions to many of the food issues we face.

Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.

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.

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.

I am disappointed because nobody is talking about food and agriculture. They're talking about the diets of children, but they're talking about Band-Aids. We're not seeing a vision.

When you introduce markets in food, then you introduce two very simple rules. The first rule is this: if you have money you can get the food from wherever around the world. The other rule markets impose is this: if you do not have money, you will starve. ... The reason why people starve is because of poverty ... not because of a shortage of food ... but because the only way to access the food is through the market.

I simply believe that food is a human right.

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.

We don't value food in Britain, so therefore the cheaper it is the better it is. We all eat far too much, we all pay far too little for our food. We have environmental problems, we have health problems, we have food transport problems.

The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to ethanol when almost a billion people are starving. So what kind of crime is animal agriculture, which uses 756 million tons of grain and corn per year, much more than enough to adequately feed the 1.4 billion human who are living in dire poverty?

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

We shouldn't let anti-science zealotry shut down the ability to produce low-cost, quality food for billions across the globe.

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

I love to talk about cooking and recipes, but I love as much talking about how food and cooking can change the world.

Supermarkets don't really sustain a community, and they completely remove people from the food chain.