Food Quotes by Raj Patel

11 Food quotes by Raj Patel

Raj Patel’s voice on food is compact yet resonant, and these eleven lines give a focused taste of his ideas. You’ll find his reflections on culture, sustainability, and the everyday politics of what we eat, all in a handy, bite‑size format.

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Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.

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The current food crisis is an opportunity for companies to engage in agriculture or biotechnology.

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There isn't enough planet for everyone to eat as much meat as the United States does. The meat industry is responsible for…

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Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture.' What…

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One of the most abused country on earth is Mexico. The marketing spills over the border, and people are persuaded to eat…

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All of human history is about the going from sudden fat years to the sudden lean years. We've always had good times…

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We need to realize that these industrial methods of farming have gotten us used to cheap food. The corollary of cheap food…

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I think we do need to worry about a food shortage, but we also need to worry about the quality of the…

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We kind of know that food is necessary to survive. But our ways of connecting with food have been, in many ways,…

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Right now you're seeing more and more families reporting that they are skipping meals. They're having to give up meat. Mothers are…

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I do think we have a food problem. In 2006, which is the year for which we have the latest data, 35.5…

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“studies are beginning to show that our ability to appreciate the intrinsic value of generosity, sharing and selflessness is central to maximizing our well-being.…

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When you have weird policy decisions in the United States that then ripple out throughout the world, the rest of the world really takes…

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“Today’s human activity isn’t exterminating mammoths through centuries of overhunting. Some humans are currently killing everything, from megafauna to microbiota, at speeds one hundred…

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