Christina Aguilera Quotes

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks; we now need to support the providers.

Food is such a basic need, and it is unfathomable to me that people still do not have adequate access.

I wish anyone in this world could go to his fridge and pick whatever he wants. Because the day you open your fridge and there is nothing in it, it is difficult.

There is plenty of corn in Castile, but he who has none, starves.

Food insecurity is not remotely the same as hunger.

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

The right use of food can end hunger.

If Victual should prove scarce, as we have not Goods or Money for any Value to send out for Corns [food grains like wheat]; so only a part of the People could be maintained: The better part would have Bread, but the more necessary part, the Laboring Men would be forced to leave the Country, or to starve in it.

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.

It's interesting - the greatest country in the world, we shouldn't have people starving. We shouldn't have young people not getting something to eat.

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.

Hunger is an issue that I've cared about for a very long time and is incredibly personal and important to me.

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

I hate it when people throw away food - I've seen too many hungry people.

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.

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.

After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.

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

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

We talk about, you know, diet and that we shouldn't give our kids big things and obesity and fast food. Well, you know there are people who don't have that problem because they're not getting any food! We have so many deep problems and issues facing humanity.

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

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.