Marion Nestle Quotes

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.

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

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.

Food is a munition. Don’t waste it.

We have been growing more food than we need since the '60s... what we have is a terrible distribution problem.

Food has become such an interesting issue in the nation and the world.

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.

There are at least 1 billion people who struggle for basic caloric protein sufficiency; probably another 2 billion people … who have serious micronutrient deficiency… We don’t have a healthy food supply for the world, nor is it assured for the future.

The problem is not actual number of calories we are producing - we have food waste issues. The problem is industrial food.

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.

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

The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global food system begged further investigation.

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

The right use of food can end hunger.

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.

To feed a nation is never easy!

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

Food: We have more of it and pay less for it than any other country in the world.

The worst food comes to the poor, which their poverty makes them buy and their necessity makes them eat. Their stomachs are the waste-basket of the State. It is their lot to swallow all the adulterations on the market.

When you introduce markets in food, then you introduce two very simple rules. The first rule is this: if you have money you can get the food from wherever around the world. The other rule markets impose is this: if you do not have money, you will starve. ... The reason why people starve is because of poverty ... not because of a shortage of food ... but because the only way to access the food is through the market.

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

There is no typical day, not when there are so many people out there that I care about that can't access good food in their neighborhoods.

Food security is a global problem, with real and immediate effects on national security.