Cost of Food Quotes



Ruth Reichl
Ruth Reichl

One of the effects of cheap food is, we have food that is so unsatisfactory. We need to go back to flavor.
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Blake Hurst
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Consumers cannot enjoy the prices and variety we farmers produce without embracing the technologies we use.
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Jeremy Grantham
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One half of the world outprices the other half.
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See {631856} for one of the major reasons.

Alice Waters
Alice Waters

Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You are feeding people, but you are not really feeding people.
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Jeremy Grantham
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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.
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The “inputs” her refers to are fertilizer, water, pesticides, equipment, transportation and energy for these. See {631857} for another way of phrasing this.

Alice Waters
Alice Waters

Food should cost more …. The farmer needs to be paid enough money for his food so that he can send his children to school and college.
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She advocates cutting out more of the middle men in the food chain and having the farmer earn more money. One difficulty with her idea is that the vast majority of farming today is done by large corporations who are already making a good deal of money and consumer groups do not want to further enrich these corporations at the expense of the consumer. However by buying directly from the small farmer who grows particularly good food, she can accomplish the objective on a small scale.

A. Philip Randolph
A. Philip Randolph

Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican and Democratic Parties are opposed to their interests.
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Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman

On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm policy. On the other hand, the Republicans are telling the farmers that the high cost of manufactured goods on the farm is due to this government's labor policy. That's plain hokum. It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work.
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