Monty Don Quotes

Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it.

As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.

'Generation Food' is a collaboration between myself and author/activist Raj Patel that will tell stories about efforts around the world to try to solve the food crisis - through a documentary, a book, a website and mobile apps.

I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.

The Safe and Affordable Food Labeling Act aims to address unnecessary impediments to feeding the world.

We want to ensure that food is traded better, farmers get a better price, and consumers are able to access it at affordable prices.

To ensure food security for all, we should be clear about the definition of the problem, the precise index of measuring impact and the road map to achieve the goal.

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.

There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and how food is made, where it's coming from, how much to consume. There are so many layers to it.

Supermarkets don't really sustain a community, and they completely remove people from the food chain.

I do a lot of reading about food and the food industry, so I try to eat locally and go to the farmer's market.

We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from radiating influence even if we want to.

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

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

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

I'm very concerned about U.S. food policy.

The industrial food system ships in high-calorie, low-nutrient, processed food from thousands of miles away. It leaves us disconnected from our food and the people who grow it.

We undervalue food in this country, yet Britain has beautiful food and beautiful growing conditions. It is astonishing the range we can grow.

The time has come to recognize that food, how we produce it, process it, package it, sell it, cook it and eat it, is as important as any other issue.

Of course, with well-masticated food playing the role of social glue, it's absolutely essential that everyone clear their plate. Sod the starving kiddies in Africa - it's the overfed ones here we need to worry about.

There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.

Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.