Food Access Quotes

As a chef, a mom, and a member of Team No Kid Hungry, I believe that every child deserves three meals a day, every day.

Even the poor can be fat in the U.S.

You can’t make progress in any of the other problems in the world if people are undernourished.

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

As a child I was sometimes so hungry that I used to dream that one day I'd get locked in a grocery store.

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

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.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead

In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.

Hunger could not exist but through violation of economic laws and fundamental principles of social justice.

We can try to reform healthcare, but the fact is if we don't have a healthy food source, we are only treating the symptoms and not the problems.

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.

When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.

Food: We have more of it and pay less for it than any other country in the world.

We do take seriously our responsibility, and growing ability, to educate people about healthy eating and giving them greater access to nourishing and affordable fresh food.

People love information. Right now in our society, we have an obesity epidemic. Because for the first time in history, we have access to food whenever we want, we don't know how to control ourselves. I think we have the exact same problem with information.

Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day. In places like Africa, these can be some of the hardest resources to attain if you live in a rural area.

I make food as affordable as possible.

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

America's dumpsters should not be better fed than its people.

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

It occurred to me that there wouldn't be world hunger, if you people would MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!

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

Food is such a basic need, a fundamental right, and such a simple pleasure.