Thomas Malthus Quotes

Securing food is the basic task for all humans.

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

Chefs are at the end of a long chain of individuals who work hard to feed people. Farmers, beekeepers, bakers, scientists, fishermen, grocers, we are all part of that chain, all food people, all dedicated to feeding the world.

Only 10 per cent of food grown in India is processed. So the best way to reduce food waste and maximise calorie delivery is to increase that ratio of processed food to total food.

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

If you eat, you should be concerned about the people who are providing you with food.

Food never ends. It's one of the greatest things about working on food - we're always going to need food.

I eat to survive, you know?

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

Farmfree production promises a far more stable and reliable food supply that can be grown anywhere, even in countries without farmland. It could be crucial to ending world hunger.

As an environmental scientist, I think our first need is to feed and shelter and nurture. That has always required the exploitation of plant life, and it always will.

Thank you to our farmers for all you do to keep food on our tables.

We take it for granted that because our shelves and supermarkets are heaving with food that there are no problems with food security. But we have limited land in the U.K., and climate disruption and population growth are putting pressure on food supply.

We are reaching a stage where the source of food has become markets and supermarkets. On a sub-conscious level, we are becoming unaware of the original source, which is land.

I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.

I've always had a strong interest in how food is produced and in knowing where it comes from.

If everyone wants to eat like people in Bangladesh, then we would have food coming out of everybody's ears.

If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right.

Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot hasn't changed for centuries. I shouldn't need to know any more details, any more history, in order to decide if my food tastes good or not.

We already solved the problem of feeding the world in the 1960s, when we started serving cheeseburgers.

The fact that China has about seven percent arable land, means that she’s always going to be looking for places that have more arable lands to finance or to provide food stuffs.

What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.

Always acknowledge your position in the food chain... They eat because you grow the food.