Jose Andres Puerta Quotes

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

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

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

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

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

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.

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

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

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

There can be no effective solution of the Indian food problem that does not include population control.

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.

In this country that grows more food than any other nation on this earth, it is unthinkable that any child should go hungry.

There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.

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 importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war.

Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

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.

So that a famine price is vague, and the plan subject to all the inconvenience now experienced.

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

In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.

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

Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world's population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7 billion mouths to feed - many of them depending on American agriculture.

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old problems we've dealt with for 60,000 years.