Alice Waters Quotes

I wish that the world's food was spread evenly on everybody's plate, and that no-one got more or less than anyone else.

We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.

Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Yet today 50 percent of the world’s population goes hungry. Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

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

Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.

I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.

Peace, Bread & Land

If, at the end of my mandate, all Brazilians have the possibility to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, I will have fulfilled the mission of my life.

I simply believe that food is a human right.

There is no typical day, not when there are so many people out there that I care about that can't access good food in their neighborhoods.

Food is one issue that cannot be solved person by person. We have to stand together.

Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.

There's no reason people should be hungry in our country. It's not acceptable.

We have been growing more food than we need since the '60s... what we have is a terrible distribution problem.

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.

Food is such a basic need, a fundamental right, and such a simple pleasure.

Eating well is a class issue.

All kids should be able to have healthy food to eat and should not have to worry about when their next meal will be.

My own motivation has come from the fact that all the indicators in the world, the hunger index or whatever index you say, shows a high prevalence of malnutrition.

Real democracy is food on the table, the ability to plan your life, the ability to walk on the street without getting mugged.

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

Every nation must concern themselves with ensuring its population has sufficient and stable access to food - ours is no exception. Nor can we afford to ignore other nations' concerns about access to food.

I'm very much about the environment, I'm very much about health, about being able to, at the very least, eat organic, whole foods that are healthy for us. And then, of course, everyone being able to eat and at least have a humane way to live. There's enough for everybody, but unfortunately, there's a lot of greed and a lot of ego.

Our economic approach to food and its distribution reflects our basic moral values.

A hungry man is not a free man. Freedom from hunger is a fundamental right. Without this freedom, such fundamental right cannot exist.