Food Distribution 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 are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

We are 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear.

It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.

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

Let fields be devoted exclusively to the production of corn, oats, beans, peas, potatoes, and other food for man and beast; let corn be sown broadcast for fodder... and let all your efforts be directed to the prompt supply of these articles in the districts where our armies are operating.

You must obey this now for a law, that he that will not work shall not eat (except by sickness he be disabled). For the labors of thirty or forty honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintain a hundred and fifty idle loiterers.

To feed a nation is never easy!

Hunger's a great spur.

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

You know what the problem is with world hunger? We've been sending them food.

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

After The Bomb we developed a fairly good system for moving food around and have avoided the kind of massive famines that attract the media. Although of course we've had a fair number of them, particularly in Africa, since The Bomb was written. But we have had a steady level of attrition of malnutrition and malnutrition-related disease. Probably something on the order of 5 to 10 million people starve to death each year, but they're spread out; they're not dramatic news events.

If you don't eat, don't worry about the farmer.

The brutal fact is that which foods are available in your grocery store is determined by trade wars, agriculture policy, and the outsized power wielded by large corporations.

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

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.

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.

A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

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.

There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be.

Hunting will never feed lots of people; it will always be a hobby.

When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all the way along the supply chain the need for more potatoes to be put on a truck a thousand miles away.