Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough.
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I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.
Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.
Without food, we cannot survive, and that is why issues that affect the food industry are so important.
We have been growing more food than we need since the '60s... what we have is a terrible distribution problem.
It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old problems we've dealt with for 60,000 years.
If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
We now eat at the end of a very long and opaque food chain. Food comes to us ready-made in packages that obscure as much information as they reveal.
We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.
I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country.