Quotes About Food insecurity

People are overweight and starving at the same time. It's a tragedy for both the individual and society.

In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.

The biggest cause of environmental destruction is poverty. Starving people can't worry about pollution. They worry about food. Half

He showed them a survey that Lisa Koonin commissioned, of parents with children who used it: just one in seven, or 2.8 million, said they'd have trouble feeding their children if schools could not. If schools were closed, Carter concluded, the problem was not 30 million kids but fewer than 3 million; they could be fed with supplemental food stamps.

A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.

It's certainly possible to live on a SNAP budget, but it's impossible to feed yourself or your family healthy, nutritious food.

I certainly didn't grow up ever having to worry about where my next meal was coming from. The fact that so many people, even in our own country, worry about something so basic, it's something I really wanted to help to do something about.

A city like Ankh-Morpork was only two meals away from chaos at the best of times.

It's interesting - the greatest country in the world, we shouldn't have people starving. We shouldn't have young people not getting something to eat.

Hunger isn't about the amount of food around—it's about being able to afford and control that food. After all, the U.S. has more food than it knows what to do with, and still 50 million people are food insecure.

My politics are food-related - food banks, the living wage, zero hour contracts - and my food is political.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

is a poor substitute for food to a child with an empty belly.

I lost my mom when I was seven, and at some point in my life having food it was like a big deal for me because it was not every day.

When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.

Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and children who rely on emergency food pantries, shelters, and other resources to meet their nutritional needs.

Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.

There are a lot of myths about food banks, but the truth is that many people are increasingly having to turn to them just to put food on the table, including many in work.

Food is such a basic need, and it is unfathomable to me that people still do not have adequate access.

Life is difficult in Africa, even getting three square meals.

The Food Stamp Challenge, which challenges higher-income families to live as if they are on food stamps, estimates that a person on food stamps has a budget of about $1.25 per meal. In other words, a family on food stamps must buy an entire meal per person for less than the cost of an average cup of coffee.

There's a lot of children that go to bed every night hungry in New York City, and it's shameful. That's really disturbing to me.

I come from a family where some nights you don't know where food's going to come from. There's nights where you're going to have go to bed hungry.