Your food shall be your medicine, and your medicine shall be your food - Hippocrates
We have to teach eco-gastronomy: a hands-on understanding of where our food comes from, how it's produced, and the traditions and rituals of eating it. Once kids are educated, they eat in different ways. They think about farming as an important occupation. They make choices about food based on biodiversity. They become sophisticated tasters. I think we can have a generation of kids that grow up with a different set of values. We're all hungry for this kind of experience--I don't mean just physically hungry but psychologically hungry for it. We need to really feel as though we're part of the natural world again, and this is a beautiful, delicious way to do it. There are businesses that can spring from this idea, but not big businesses. Plenty of things in this world can be scaled up, but food isn't one of them. We need to buy food that was grown or raised close by rather than support national and global conglomerates. To do so, we need to build local communities of farmers. If we can make the right choices about food, we can change the world - Alice Waters, Executive chef and owner, Chez Panisse http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/103/fast-talk.html
There is . . . a human drama that rarely gets headlines. . . . We have 3 billion people in the world who live on under $2 a day. We have 1.3 billion people that live on under $1 a day. We have 1.5 billion people who don?t have access to clean water. We have another 2 billion who don?t have power. We?re losing forests at the rate of an acre a second . . . In another 30 years, we?re going to need twice the food, with no greater arable land - World Bank President Jim Wolfensohn Conference Board's annual dinner, 2001
The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat - Eleanor Roosevelt
Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure - Barbara Kingsolver
Eat less, move more - Anonymous
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants - Michael Pollan
Because two-thirds of us are categorised as overweight or obese, the panic about obesity manages to demonise the majority of the population. We have created a carnival of self-loathing that surely outweighs any possible benefit from being thinner - http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/panicindex