Christopher Dodd Quotes

Without food, we cannot survive, and that is why issues that affect the food industry are so important.

Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.

If you eat, you should be concerned about the people who are providing you with food.

Most people don't know where their food comes from. We're confused about the fundamentals. How does our food wind up on our plates? How exactly is it that, when I flick the switch, the lights come on?

I think that once I started connecting dots of where my food was coming from and the reality of that, as opposed to maybe what you think it is as a little kid, and the realities of how my food was getting to my plate and what the real effects of that are. When I started connecting those dots, I couldn't disconnect them.

I think it's important for children to know where their food comes from and how much work it takes to produce the items we eat in our home.

I've always had a strong interest in how food is produced and in knowing where it comes from.

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

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.

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

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.

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.

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

Food is a noble thing to trade.

Food never ends. It's one of the greatest things about working on food - we're always going to need food.

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 most imminent battle our generation is going to have to fight is food transparency: how food is made/grown, where it comes from, the quality of the source, and how it will effect our health long term.

We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.

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.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

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

Ninety-five percent of all brussels sprouts come from California.

There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and how food is made, where it's coming from, how much to consume. There are so many layers to it.

A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.

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