Global Food Supply Quotes

With China’s 1.4 billion increasingly affluent consumers starting to compete with U. S. consumers for the U. S. grain harvest, cheap food seen by many as an American birthright, may be coming to an end.

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

The pet food recall, which was after all just about pets, and treated as if it were an inconsequential matter, was an absolute forerunner of what's going on in China, where 50,000 infants have been sickened because of a contaminated infant formula. So these things are all closely related. You cannot separate the food supply for pets, farm animals, and people, and you cannot separate problems in one area of a country from problems in another area.

There are plenty of publicly-funded organizations and nonprofits that are trying to develop GMO crops that could help feed people in developing nations by producing disease-resistant or drought-resistant strains of staple crops like cassava or bananas.

We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.

We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.

If everyone wants to eat like people in Bangladesh, then we would have food coming out of everybody's ears.

Because of the industrialization of agriculture -- using massive amounts of fossil fuel -- only 2 percent of Americans work in farming. And yet they produce enough food to feed all 300 million Americans, with plenty left over for export. When are liberals going to break the news to their friends in Darfur that they all have to starve to death to save the planet?

We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world.

Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.

Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really cheap stuff.

If Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn.

Because we only feed in the United States less than 1 per cent of the meals, most of them are eaten elsewhere. Most meals are eaten at home. So to make McDonald's the target is not going to solve the problem.

The future of food security will depend on a combination of the ecological prudence of the past and the technological advances of today.

Forests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the source of our food enables us to be superficially more comfortable, and distinctly more ignorant.