Big picture Quote by Michelle Wu

We must center restaurants, bodegas, and other food businesses as critical food infrastructure for racial and economic justice.

— Michelle Wu

I think right now the focus of people involved in food issues have to be legislative resolution at the county, city, state, and national…

— Andrew Zimmern

Because we're becoming such an urban nation, we're going to need to be producing so much more food in cities. These institutions have members,…

— Bryant Terry

The Kitchen's mission is to strengthen communities by bringing local, real food to everyone.

— Kimbal Musk

We must occupy the food system to create food democracy.

— Vandana Shiva

Food is very representative of a city's culture. In order to really get to know a place and the people, you've got to eat…

— Emeril Lagasse

Sometimes there's cities where it's just hard to find healthy food. You just have to be prepared.

— Daniel Bryan

Food redistribution is economically sensible, ecologically pressing, and socially responsible; it is high time food corporations woke up to it and governments started funding…

— Tristram Stuart

So many of our large anchor institutions also have tremendous purchasing power. If we were coordinating that and incentivizing good food procurement across the…

— Michelle Wu

Oddly enough, government policy helped get the fast food outlets into the city. Very well-intentioned small business administration loans to encourage minority business ownership.…

— Michael Pollan

From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police…

— Joel Salatin

We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively…

— Mike Johanns