Gail Bradbrook Quotes

I'm terrified about the world food shortages. Vegetables could quite easily become tomorrow's currency.

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.

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

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!

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.

There are 6 million people in the world. With organic farming, we will only be able to feed 4 billion of them. Which 2 billion will volunteer to die?

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.

Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.

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.

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.

Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's.

Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

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.

I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old problems we've dealt with for 60,000 years.

No one has starved.

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

Hold your kids from eating for 3 or 4 days, and see what they tell you on the 5th day. Hunger is a bad thing.

The whole district seemed swept of food and a third of the population would be without food at Christmas, two thirds starving before February and by May 1848, there would be a total starvation.

Hunger is not debatable.

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.

We will be guilty of criminal negligence, without extenuation, if we permit future famines.

Unless progress with agricultural yields remains very strong, the next century will experience sheer human misery that, on a numerical scale, will exceed the worst of everything that has come before.

We could easily be facing starvation in the U.K. if the weather effect continues as it is. We need to be building resilience in our communities.