Guy Fieri Quotes
I always say that environment always affects the food.
Fieri, Guy. Diners, Drive-ins and Dives: An All-American Road Trip . . . with Recipes! William Morrow Cookbooks, 2008.
While this was somewhat hyperbolic at the time, it became true during the century.
The president was right. There is enough food to go around. The problem however is logistical, economic, and political. Some countries use food as a weapon to keep their own people under control. The major problem is the distribution of the food. It has to be transported from where it is gown to where it should be consumed. Much food in the third world rots because the transportation system cannot move the food efficiently enough. Even when food is donated to nations, the free or cheap food undercuts the local farmers who go out of business and there is even less food the following year.
This scientific quotation is politically important because it defines the difficult problem of setting acceptable and safe environmental and work standards for air or water quality and contact with potentially toxic substances. As this quotation illustrates, everything is toxic if given in large enough doses. Table salt can kill a human if enough if ingested. Tiny amounts of even a poison will do no harm. What makes setting of standards still more complicated is that human beings differ in the amount of a substance it would take to produce a toxic reaction. Allergies are the best example, but the variability of sensitivity always exists.
As global warming affects our entire planet, Plant pests and diseases travel North at a rate of 2 miles a year moving from the colder climates into the warmer ones where they now can thrive while they could not before the warming. That, in turn, changes the mix of trees and plants as well as distribution and range of many animals. The same thing happens in the Southern hemisphere only the warmer areas expand South rather than North.
Guy Ramsay Fieri is an American restaurateur, author, and an Emmy Award winning television presenter. He co-owns three restaurants in California, licenses his name to restaurants in New York City and Las Vegas, Nevada, and is known for hosting various television series on the Food Network. By 2010, The New York Times reported that Fieri had become the "face of the network", bringing an "element of rowdy, mass-market culture to American food television" and that his "prime-time shows attract more male viewers than any others on the network".
