Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.

Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.

What we need to get right is not focusing on the fear associated with quantity - not enough, scarcity, and lack - and moving instead to a worldview that explores quality and connectedness.

Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.

What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create some new "ism," but to learn as we walk and to create more democratic forms of social organization that re-embed economic life in community.

The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.

Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men.