Guru Nanak Quotes

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

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.

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

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

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

The right use of food can end hunger.

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

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.

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

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

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

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.

Hunger has no ideology. It does not respond to party or to rant. Hunger, in short, is not a red state/blue state problem.

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

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.

We don't need to cure hunger - we know how to solve hunger - it's food, it's nutrition, and it's really a question of access.

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.

The problem is not actual number of calories we are producing - we have food waste issues. The problem is industrial food.

Nobody in this country, the richest on Earth, should ever go hungry.

It's so easy to produce food, throw it away, and watch people starve. It's so hard to produce food mindfully and to feed and to reduce waste.

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

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

... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.

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.