Immanuel Wallerstein Quotes

It occurred to me that there wouldn't be world hunger, if you people would MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!

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.

We cannot exist as a little island of well-being in a world where two-thirds of the people go to bed hungry every night.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

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

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

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

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.

Even if we could produce enough food globally to feed everyone satisfactorily, the continued steady rise in the cost of inputs will mean increasing numbers will not be able to afford the food we produce. This is a key point that is often missed.

Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Yet today 50 percent of the world’s population goes hungry. Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

People are starving in the world, not because we don't have enough food, but because we're not organized. And computers are part of that.

Why can't a state that launches cosmonauts into space provide enough eggs and milk for its city children during the winter months?

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.

In the U.S and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many worry about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs. And it's getting more and more difficult every day.

... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.

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

Famines are political. We all know that the immediate response to a famine must be food, aid, and shelter, but we should also look hard at what else can be done earlier on. It is not the lack of food but the fact that some people cannot get access to the food that causes the famine.

The entire trendy foodie world - food writing, food television, celebrated restaurants - is all about food for the rich. But the most important food issue is how to feed the poor or the hardworking middle class.

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

Your problems pale in comparison with those of the millions of people in the world who do not have enough to eat.

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world

Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.

It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!

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