I had the realization that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, it is caused by the production system and an absence of democracy throughout the world.

I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with two parents who founded a Unitarian Church. We lived in a little frame house, and my bedroom was just down the hall from the kitchen. My favorite memories of childhood are of the smell of coffee wafting into my bedroom as my parents and their friends talked about the big, important things - about racism and about how to move our country to live its values.

This is the first generation to know that the choices we're making have ultimate consequences. It's a time when you either choose life or you choose death ... Going along with the current order means that you're choosing death.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty.

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