Food Reform Quotes

There is nothing I love more than helping someone realize how corrupt our food system is and them making great changes in their own life because of it.

To address our current food system problems, I propose a series of local, regional, national and global conversations - starting around the dinner table - to rethink the food we produce, buy and eat.

It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.

We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.

I want to reshape fast food in America.

People need help to change the way they eat... this is what government is for in my opinion.... We should make food an issue for everyone who runs for office.

The New Nordic diet originated in 2004, when the visionary chefs Rene Redzepi and Claus Meyer called a symposium of regional chefs to address the public's increasing consumption of processed foods, additives, highly refined grains, and mass-produced poultry and meat.

It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play their part, and an important part, in a full discussion of food reform; but the feeling which underlies and animates the whole movement is the instinctive horror of butchery, especially the butchery of the more highly organized animals, so human, so near akin to man.

The first step in reforming appetite is going from processed food to real food. Then, if you can afford organic or grass-fed, fantastic. But the first step is moving from processed industrial food to the real thing.

We need real farmers who grow real food, and the will to reform a broken food system. And for that, we need not only to celebrate farmers, but also to advocate for them.

I'm very hopeful that we'll see some change in our food system. I don't know how far we'll go, or how quickly we'll get there, but there is no question that a significant percentage of the American public is dissatisfied with the food system.

We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.