Food Crisis Quotes

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

There is a connection between energy, climate, food and political stability. That has played out in the Arab awakening and is not done playing out.

No one has starved.

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

To feed a nation is never easy!

Famines were frequent in colonial India and some estimates indicate that 30 to 40 million died out of starvation in Tamil Nadu, Bihar and Bengal during the later half of the 19th century.

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.

There are 6 million people in the world. With organic farming, we will only be able to feed 4 billion of them. Which 2 billion will volunteer to die?

Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world's population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7 billion mouths to feed - many of them depending on American agriculture.

I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.

Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.

The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.

In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage, and countries are scrambling to secure their own parochial interests at the expense of the common good.

Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's.

The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.

Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year.

People may have to die in the country and die through starvation.

Back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not anymore.

Thousands of Mexicans gathered in Mexico City to protest high food prices. The protest only lasted an hour, because everyone had to leave for their jobs in Los Angeles

The man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

We could easily be facing starvation in the U.K. if the weather effect continues as it is. We need to be building resilience in our communities.

It sounds like an extremist thing to say, but what do people think is going to happen to human beings when there's not enough food?

Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world. It claims 25,000 lives a day, 175,000 a week. It sweeps children from the arms of their mothers, robs hundreds of millions of any hope for the future. That tsunami is hunger. Help us end it now.