Quotes About Sustainability

At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food is money, food is power.

Supporting local food production is so much healthier for people. It's better for the local economy, and it's a lot of fun.

What we often fail to recognize is how efficient a vegan diet is. Less land, less water, more food for our spiraling population.

We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.

Food availability is not really the issue. The quality of the food is what we recognize is the problem.

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.

The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!

The fact that China has about seven percent arable land, means that she's always going to be looking for places that have more arable lands to finance or to provide food stuffs.

Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

Don't eat processed food, refined food but rather organic food from the earth - nothing with genetically - modified ingredients.

So if we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere?

I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

If it doesn't rot, it's not real food.

Food is one of the great organizing tools.

We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.

The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains as well as our fields so that when some of them fail, we can still eat.

The food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at Safeway; they're not going to the farmers' market. Those people need choices too.

...when food is shared in a fair way, with solidarity, when no one is deprived, every community can meet the needs of the poorest. Human ecology and environmental ecology walk together.

High-quality food is better for your health.

The more chemicals that are in our food, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of.

As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.

When you control seed, you control food.

Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.