Ronald Reagan Quotes

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

Food insecurity is not remotely the same as hunger.

Food is such a basic need, and it is unfathomable to me that people still do not have adequate access.

I wish anyone in this world could go to his fridge and pick whatever he wants. Because the day you open your fridge and there is nothing in it, it is difficult.

The right use of food can end hunger.

In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks; we now need to support the providers.

There is plenty of corn in Castile, but he who has none, starves.

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

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 you introduce markets in food, then you introduce two very simple rules. The first rule is this: if you have money you can get the food from wherever around the world. The other rule markets impose is this: if you do not have money, you will starve. ... The reason why people starve is because of poverty ... not because of a shortage of food ... but because the only way to access the food is through the market.

Hunger is not debatable.

We don't need to cure hunger - we know how to solve hunger - it's food, it's nutrition, and it's really a question of access.

Nobody in this country, the richest on Earth, should ever go hungry.

Too many children and adults go hungry every day.

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.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.

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.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.

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

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.

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