Food Security Quotes

“If 22 bushels (1,300 pounds) of rice and 22 bushels of winter grain are harvested from a quarter acre field, then the field will support five to ten people each investing an average of less than one hour of labour per day. But if the field were turned over to pasturage, or if the grain were fed to cattle, only one person could be supported per quarter acre. Meat becomes a luxury food when its production requires land which could provide food directly for human consumption. This has been shown clearly and definitely. Each person should ponder seriously how much hardship he is causing by indulging in food so expensively produced.”
― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

“The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.”
― Joel Salatin, Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

“Food security is not in the supermarket. It's not in the government. It's not at the emergency services division. True food security is the historical normalcy of packing it in during the abundant times, building that in-house larder, and resting easy knowing that our little ones are not dependent on next week's farmers' market or the electronic cashiers at the supermarket.”
― Joel Salatin, Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

“That many if not most people...who want fresh leafy greens in January buy them at the supermarket after they've been bleached and plastic-bag shipped from California or beyond is not a tribute to modern technology; it's an unprecedented abdication of personal responsibility and a ubiquitous benchmark of abnormality.”
― Joel Salatin, Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

“How many of us lobby for green energy or protected lands, but don't engage with the local bounty to lay by for tomorrow's unseasonal reality? That we tend to not even think about this as a foundation for solutions in our food systems shows how quickly we want other people to solve these issues.”
― Joel Salatin, Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

“Each food items in a typical U.S. meal has traveled an average of 1,500 miles....If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce we would reduce our country's oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

“The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals, water, and air; shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife.”
― Toby Hemenway, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture

“I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.”
― Jackie French, New Plants from Old: Simple, Natural, No-cost Plant Propagation

“What's important to recognize is that in the U.S. today, tens of millions of kids start life on a uneven playing field. Imagine having to try to run a race if you started ten yards behind everyone else, hadn't eaten breakfast that morning, or maybe even dinner the night before, had slept in your third homeless shelter that month and didn't have shoes that fit right. Catching up would be really, really hard. With almost 32 million American kids living in low-income families, that means four out of ten runners are starting far back.”
― Chelsea Clinton, It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!

“Organic agriculture = Seed Sovereignty + Biological Integrity + Food Security

Whereas,

Food biotechnology = Food security (at the cost of seed sovereignty and biological integrity)

The choice is on us!”
― Royal Raj S

“Equality will cost you your luxurious life
If a Black woman can’t vote
If a brown baby can’t be fed
If we all don’t have the same opportunity America promised”
― Mahogany L. Browne

“Seed sovereignty should not be sacrificed at the altar of food security”
― Royal Raj S

“Organic agriculture equals to seed sovereignty plus biological integrity plus food security.

(Organic agriculture = Seed Sovereignty + Biological Integrity + Food Security)

Whereas, 

Food biotechnology equals only to food security at the cost of seed sovereignty and biological integrity.

(Food biotechnology = Food security)

The choice is on us!”
― Royal Raj S

“I never doubted I would have a roof over my head, a school to go to, enough to to eat, books (and newspapers) to read, a safe neighborhood to play in and a doctor to see if I got sick.
My parents and grandparents made sure I knew I was lucky.”
― Chelsea Clinton, It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!

“Winter comes, and our cupboard shelves in the snug stone cellar are an art gallery of crimson and green and brown and white jars. We have canned raspberries, blueberries, peas, beans, a few beets, some apple sauce from windfalls, grape jelly, fifty quarts of canned yellow corn, many quarts of beef stew and beef soup stock, also pork. A five-gallon keg of cider sits in the corner. In a wooden bin are twelve bushels of Green Mountain potatoes, and we have bought three barrels of apples. Our rutabagas, most of our beets and carrots are stored in layers of sand. There are bushels of onions and a hundred Danish Ball Head cabbages laid out on rough shelves.”
― Elliott Merrick, Green Mountain Farm

“In winter we often go down to the cellar and contemplate the art gallery. When a blizzard is howling outside is the best time.”
― Elliott Merrick, Green Mountain Farm

“Food security was as important as national security for any country, therefore the government accorded special heed towards promotion of agriculture sector to make the country net food exporter in years to come”
― Jamshed Iqbal Cheema, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Food Security

“Farming as much as fishing are necessary to ensure food security.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“One of sustainable approaches to sufficient supply of food is sustainable agricultural practices.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“One of the sustainable approaches to food security is sustainable agricultural practices.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Agricultural development is essential for sustainable food security.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Zero hunger is possible, with growing of much more crops on every land, people of every nation will have plenty food.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Africa must develop a vision to promote agriculture production in the next decade to feed the people.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Just because rice has served as our staple crop for thousands of years doesn't guarantee its perpetual role. The shift in climate necessitates crops that exhibit greater resilience and reduced dependence on resources.”
― Sayem Sarkar

“Just as a river finds new courses when the landscape shifts, our staple crops must chart a new course to navigate the terrain of climate change.”
― Sayem Sarkar