Paul Polman Quotes

Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese.

Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.

This year alone, total world cereal production was estimated to be 2,114 million tons, while total cereal demand was projected at around 1007 million tones, less than half of the cereal production. Ideally, no one should starve or die of hunger in the world we live. Strangely and sadly enough, they do. This is not fair. This is not right.

When there is enough food to feed everyone, why are 870 million people going hungry? We must learn to share what we have; no one race or nation has a greater right to life than another.

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.

When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.

You can’t make progress in any of the other problems in the world if people are undernourished.

Every second of every day there are three new mouths to feed in this world.

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.

For the first time we have the technical capacity to free mankind from the scourge of hunger.

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

It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.

Wherever I go people recognize me, call my name, cheer for me. But there are names no one cares to remember, that no one cheers for: the 805 million people suffering from hunger in the world today.

In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone