Imagine sitting down to an eight ounce steak, and then, imagine the room filled wit 45 to 50 people with empty bowls...For the feed cost of your steak, each of their bowls could be filled with a cup pf cooked cereal grains.

We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; personally, I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.' It always means listen closely.

much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).

History doesn't proceed in incremental little notches.

We are very much social creatures who model ourselves on one another.

Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that they know where their food is coming from, and they can take their families out and see the farm and meet the farmer. That movement has helped create a new culture around food.

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