Food Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

“Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally important.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“export of food from Ireland during the famine: 430,000 tons of grain in 1846 and 1847, the two worst years. “The Almighty indeed sent…

— Charles C. Mann

We have been growing more food than we need since the '60s... what we have is a terrible distribution problem.

— Kimbal Musk

We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop.

— Ian Brown

“Food exemplifies the difficulty of withdrawing from the modern economy, because you can’t live without it and because not many people produce all of…

— Derrick Jensen

America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances,…

— Marcy Kaptur

“The world does produce enough to feed its inhabitants – in fact we waste vast quantities of grain and soybeans by feeding them to animals,…

— Peter Singer

When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all…

— Stephen Elop

“Each food items in a typical U.S. meal has traveled an average of 1,500 miles....If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Let's be honest, this is a consumer based economy in America. That's all we manufacture here is need and appetite. We are the world's…

— Marc Maron

It's amazing how many people are being fed because of this crazy little thing we started. We're feeding millions and it is not costing…

— John van Hengel