M. S. Swaminathan Quotes

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.

Famine, it turns out, is not caused by a failure to produce food. It is caused by a failure to distribute food correctly — because the ruler is not accountable to the starving.

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Bengal Famine, Parliament is likely to pass the National Food Security Bill which will be the world's largest social protection measure against hunger.

The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war.

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

A hungry man is not a free man.

Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.

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

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

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.

The free press is good on major disasters like classic famines, but it tolerates chronic hunger as much as anyone else.

There can be no effective solution of the Indian food problem that does not include population control.

Starvation does not await the outcome of power politics.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

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?

With China’s 1.4 billion increasingly affluent consumers starting to compete with U. S. consumers for the U. S. grain harvest, cheap food seen by many as an American birthright, may be coming to an end.

Foreign investors producing food in a country full of hungry people face another political is how to get the grain out. Will villagers permit trucks laden with grain headed for cities to proceed when they themselves are on the verge of starvation.

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.

People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.

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

Food is a weapon - a very effective weapon. People don't cultivate, don't farm, you cut the road off, then you subjugate them very easily.

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

Too many children and adults go hungry every day.