Food Waste Quotes

Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.

We have a more intimate relationship with food than with almost anything else we buy, so people are with very good reason concerned about the real story behind what they eat.

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

In restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I always ask for a doggie bag to bring the leftovers home.

Restaurants should be forced to recycle their leftovers for animal consumption - and should create fewer leftovers in the first place.

Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent: 'I'm saving food!' Then a month later when blue hair is growing out of the ham, and you throw it away, you feel really intelligent: 'I'm saving my life!'

Buying from a local farmer can mean that he makes a two-hour extra truck drive, which can damage the environment more than a bunch of bananas on a boat.

It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.

We don't want a country populated by children feeding themselves from garbage dumps.

We are big composters. We compost everything - bread, tea bags, coffee grounds. I even dump out my old coffee in the garden. We keep a mixing bowl on the counter and just fill it up as the day goes along, then dump it in the mulch pile before dinner and wash it with the dinner dishes.

If you kill it, you gotta grill it, so to speak.

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.

Without food, we cannot survive, and that is why issues that affect the food industry are so important.

Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.

It pains to see that some investors are importing raw commodities, although just on their door steps, similar produces are left to decay.

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

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

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

We're taught that food in a dumpster is waste. But when you find bags of bread that are perfectly good, all of a sudden that waste turns into bounty. That's an important shift in perception.

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.

As a chef, I feel that it is my duty to make the most of what the earth gives us.

Working-class and poor urban Americans are not benefiting economically from our current food system. It relies too much on transportation, chemical fertilization, big use of water, and also refrigeration.

I can never waste water. If I cannot drink it I will use it to water the plants and I will never waste food. If it is inedible it goes on the compost heap.

Restaurants serve huge portions on even huger platters, and people are tempted to eat too much.