Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

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.

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

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.

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.

I am disappointed because nobody is talking about food and agriculture. They're talking about the diets of children, but they're talking about Band-Aids. We're not seeing a vision.

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

With the growth of both urbanization and globalization, consumers are becoming increasingly disconnected from their food.

To us in Asia, rice is such a staple, we take it for granted. I didn't even think about how I made it until I came to the Western world.

We don't value food in Britain, so therefore the cheaper it is the better it is. We all eat far too much, we all pay far too little for our food. We have environmental problems, we have health problems, we have food transport problems.

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

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

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

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

I love to talk about cooking and recipes, but I love as much talking about how food and cooking can change the world.

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.

India is mostly vegetarian, and I think that will be crucial to changing the world. I think the United States is lost.

You've got a global food problem. You've got a food problem in the United States. You've got a food problem in Africa... in Asia. And so the truth is, the U.S. is going to have to produce more, on not very many more acres, honestly. And so we're going to have to do a better job.

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

'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.

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

I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.

Every second of every day there are three new mouths to feed in this world.