Culture Quote by Pope Francis

We, the people, do have the power to stop [the] tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.

— Tristram Stuart

Consumerism has accustomed us to waste. But throwing food away is like stealing it from the poor and hungry.

— Pope Francis

We should all remember... that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the poor, the hungry! I encourage everyone to reflect…

— Pope Francis

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

— Andy Rooney

“Our culture is not unacquainted with the idea of food as a spiritually loaded commodity. We're just particular about which spiritual arguments we'll accept…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no longer able…

— Pope Francis

“Yet today there’s simply too much noise around the issues of food, hunger, and eating for us to listen to our own bodies. We…

— Linda Bacon

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it…

— Joni Mitchell

The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it…

— George McGovern

Wasting food is like stealing from the poor.

— Pope Francis

“Before saying anything further about culture, I consider the world is hungry and does not care about culture, and people artificially want to turn…

— Antonin Artaud

It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have…

— Pope Francis