Jeremy Rifkin Quotes

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

If extreme poverty is allowed to increase, it will give rise to new problems, including new diseases that will spread from countries that cannot provide adequate healthcare to those that can. Poverty will lead to more migrants seeking to move, whether legally or not, to rich nations.

People are overweight and starving at the same time. It's a tragedy for both the individual and society.

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

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

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 expect kids who don't have enough to eat to do well.

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

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.

40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.

Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.

Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.

Hunger's a great spur.

There is no reason, in the capital city of the richest country in the world, for anybody to be hungry.

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

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.