Roy Choi Quotes

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

The single most important problem with food in this country is that it is vastly overproduced.

Every Mainer, regardless of their income or where they live, should have access to fresh, healthy food.

Eating well is a class issue.

All kids should be able to have healthy food to eat and should not have to worry about when their next meal will be.

Really, the only way to face the biggest problems we have is for the government to change the way they subsidize food. The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane.

A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.

In 2010, I created World Central Kitchen as a way to try and help find solutions to many of the food issues we face.

The playing field is anything but level when you walk into the grocery store. So much government subsidy goes into processed foods. Even when you're well-meaning as a parent or a shopper for yourself, you can't help but be pulled toward the highly processed food.

Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.

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

I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.

There's the issue of hunger, and there's an issue of if you're going to cut out food programs. We should be focusing on healthy food. Right now, fruits and vegetables are very expensive. So what can we do on the policy side to bring the cost of fruits and vegetables down?

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.

I simply believe that food is a human right.

Food insecurity is not remotely the same as hunger.

Food poverty comes in two strands. The first is not having enough money to buy food for yourself and your family. The second is poverty of education.

The Kitchen's mission is to strengthen communities by bringing local, real food to everyone.

Sadly, many people in our biggest cities are at the mercy of industrial food.

Actually if you were to buy a bag of dried lentils it would cost you a couple of quid. Some people don't have that to spend in the first place. And not everyone wants to eat lentils.

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.

When you actually integrate the health savings from an improved food system, eliminating food deserts, ensuring that everyone can afford a healthy diet, that you don't have to be sort of a person of substantial means in order to have access to healthy food, there are remarkable health improvements.

One of the richest countries in the history of the world having communities where people have to go over half an hour to get to fresh produce and food is unacceptable.

I get meals when I can, or I have protein shakes.

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.