Margaret Atwood Quotes

Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.

There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.

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

People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

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.

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.

Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat, hundreds of millions more are eating too much and are overweight or obese.

Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.

Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.

You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the governments stop them?

You didn't eat some days for two days you didn't eat properly.

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

You can’t make progress in any of the other problems in the world if people are undernourished.

I have stopped at farm after farm where lean, underfed women and sickly men repeated again and again the same story—little food and no opportunity to get more.

No one in the country is actually starving.

Starvation does not await the outcome of power politics.

Famine seems to be the last, the most dreadful resource of nature.

There are 6 million people in the world. With organic farming, we will only be able to feed 4 billion of them. Which 2 billion will volunteer to die?

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.

[Starving] women, children, the elderly, they don’t know anything about four-party talks. They want to eat. They want to live.

If a man dies of hunger, all the people of the district are responsible for his death

Hold your kids from eating for 3 or 4 days, and see what they tell you on the 5th day. Hunger is a bad thing.

In the 19th century, some people looked at the condition of slavery and said that it was monstrous and unconscionable; that it must be abolished. ... Today the condition of hunger in a world of plenty is equally monstrous and unconscionable and it too must be abolished. We must become the 'new abolitionists'.