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Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together.

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

Food has become such an interesting issue in the nation and the world.

Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes - the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things - there is nothing to fall back on.

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.

People are hungry not because there aren't enough farmers or food, but because they don't have access to it or can't afford it.