Alice Waters Quotes

One of the most irresponsible things we can do is eat in ignorance, without any awareness of what our eating is doing to the world or to other species.

Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.

If you and I become vegans, the global consequences aren't going to be that much. But if we can get a few hundred million people to become a little more aware and cut back on their animal consumption, the consequences will be great.

There is no conflict between a better meal and a better world.

Right now my favorite book is 'Omnivores Dilemma.'

And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.

People have their cultural reasons for eating meat, their traditional reasons, their likes and dislikes.

I make a fair amount of my food choices for environmental-type reasons than nutrition or taste. I'm trying to minimize impact, which is something most people don't necessarily think about when they're shopping.

We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn't recognize value, it's contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it's done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life.

I'm not a vegetarian, but while I don't want to defend it, I try to be mindful about the amount of animal products I consume. I eat a lot of vegan meals at home, and I'm okay with paying more for higher quality meat and eggs as a tax.

I don't think it exists anymore where you have to be a vegetarian or meat-eater. There's this beautiful gray area that we're all living in now; it just takes some exposure to the different ways to do it.

It will always be trendy to do the right thing with food.

What kind of world would we create if three times a day we activated our compassion and reason as we sat down to eat, if we had the moral imagination and the pragmatic will to change our most fundamental act of consumption?

Change the world is maybe Obama's job.

The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.

If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and the whole system would look a lot different.

Be sure that you make a difference in the world.

To change the world you'll need a pen.

Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used.

A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.

The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.

I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do

I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.

We can only begin to change the world around us when we are willing to become a conscious part of all that is changing.

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.