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Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.

Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.

People want real food. The demand for it is through the roof.

When the commodities go up and the cost of transportation is going up, and the value of the dollar is going down, it's all going to translate to an 8 to 10 percent rise in food prices.

The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of.

We have been growing more food than we need since the '60s... what we have is a terrible distribution problem.

In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.

While the surfeit of cheap calories that the U.S. food system has produced since the late 1970s may have taken food prices off the political agenda, this has come at a steep cost to public health.

We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be cheap to buy real food. But it can be affordable. It's really something that we need to understand. It's the kind of work that it takes to grow food. We don't understand that piece of it.