Hunger Issues Quotes

It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of.

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

I participate in the SNAP Challenge to raise awareness about the millions of people in our communities who struggle with hunger on a daily basis despite living in the most prosperous nation ever known.

Our nation's anti-hunger programs need to be strengthened.

Famine, it turns out, is not caused by a failure to produce food. It is caused by a failure to distribute food correctly — because the ruler is not accountable to the starving.

One thing I want to do is create something called Ring Around Congress. It would be a state deal and also a national thing, where the kids, as a field trip, will go and join hands around Congress and give the politicians report cards on how they're voting on hunger issues.

There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.

When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.

The free press is good on major disasters like classic famines, but it tolerates chronic hunger as much as anyone else.

What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not find it worthwhile to spend time discussing issues of poverty and hunger. They believe that these will be resolved when general economic prosperity increases. These economists spend all their talents detailing the process of development and prosperity, but rarely reflect on the origin and development of poverty and hunger. A a result, poverty continues.

As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue.

Food insecurity is not remotely the same as hunger.

The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world

That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.

I've been dieting my whole life because I have a tremendous appetite.

As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global food system begged further investigation.