Food System Quotes

14 quotes by 11 authors

Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so… — Michael Pollan
Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for. — Frances Moore LappÃ©
I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem-and eating some of it doesn't directly take food out… — Frances Moore LappÃ©
Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that restored the land.… — Michael Pollan
...the era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in 2010 and North… — Richard Heinberg
We need real farmers who grow real food, and the will to reform a broken food system. And for that, we need not only to… — Mark Bittman
What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon… — Eric Schlosser
We must occupy the food system to create food democracy. — Vandana Shiva
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… — Ellen Gustafson
By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and… — Janet Poppendieck
The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources… — Walden Bello
Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food. — Joel Salatin
Voices of Transition educates, opens minds to new possibilities and presentsÂ a new vision of how our food system could be. As a historic transition unfolds,Â this… — Rob Hopkins
To address our current food system problems, I propose a series of local, regional, national and global conversations - starting around the dinner table -… — Ellen Gustafson

Who Wrote These Food System Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 14 Food System Quotes as follows: