John Melcher Quotes

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.

Food security is not only a matter of humanitarian assistance and agricultural development; it is a matter of national security, peace and stability.

Starvation does not await the outcome of power politics.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

Foreign investors producing food in a country full of hungry people face another political is how to get the grain out. Will villagers permit trucks laden with grain headed for cities to proceed when they themselves are on the verge of starvation.

When there is enough food to feed everyone, why are 870 million people going hungry? We must learn to share what we have; no one race or nation has a greater right to life than another.

People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and Ethiopia.

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

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.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

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.

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

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

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.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

The free press is good on major disasters like classic famines, but it tolerates chronic hunger as much as anyone else.

For the first time we have the technical capacity to free mankind from the scourge of hunger.

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

Famine, it turns out, is not caused by a failure to produce food. It is caused by a failure to distribute food correctly — because the ruler is not accountable to the starving.

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.

We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.

I'm terrified about the world food shortages. Vegetables could quite easily become tomorrow's currency.

It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.

We have made a commitment to feed 20-million people over the next two years. We are somewhere around 10 million. But I can promise you that we are not going to stop at 20 million. Because hunger, there is almost no cure for it. You can take care of the problem today, but it is a recurring problem.