Pope Francis Quotes

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.

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.

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

We should all remember... that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the poor, the hungry! I encourage everyone to reflect on the problem of thrown away and wasted food to identify ways and means that, by seriously addressing this issue, are a vehicle of solidarity and sharing with the needy.

Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.

I hate it when people throw away food - I've seen too many hungry people.

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.

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?

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

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.

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

We must labour to create the grain to feed people with. All other needs that we have are secondary; there is only one physical distress, and that is hunger.

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.

People don't realize that we're spending money throwing food away rather than feeding people.

There's no reason people should be hungry in our country. It's not acceptable.

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.

I participate in the SNAP Challenge to raise awareness about the millions of people in our communities who struggle with hunger on a daily basis despite living in the most prosperous nation ever known.

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

In these days when we feed those who are not hungry, we are stealing from those who are starving, even though the food is our own.

America's dumpsters should not be better fed than its people.

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.

In this country that grows more food than any other nation on this earth, it is unthinkable that any child should go hungry.

This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger.