Eric Schlosser Quotes

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.

The single most important problem with food in this country is that it is vastly overproduced.

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

Food has become such an interesting issue in the nation and the world.

A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.

The brutal fact is that which foods are available in your grocery store is determined by trade wars, agriculture policy, and the outsized power wielded by large corporations.

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.

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

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global food system begged further investigation.

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

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.

How is the government going to run without people like us? We make 35 percent of the bread in this country, and that much of the margarine, and cooking oil, and all the other things.

We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be cheap to buy real food. But it can be affordable. It's really something that we need to understand. It's the kind of work that it takes to grow food. We don't understand that piece of it.

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

In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.

If you don't eat, don't worry about the farmer.

We Americans have food in massive oversupply. That oversupply has crushed farm prices. We must dispose of the surpluses in order to strengthen prices, and we should dispose of them by feeding the starving and hungry overseas and the malnourished at home.

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

We have already broken the link between food production and population. This will soon be complete.

The problem is not actual number of calories we are producing - we have food waste issues. The problem is industrial food.

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

There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.