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

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

I was a compulsive eater in my late teens and until I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, so I know what it feels like when food becomes a threat.

No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.

I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge.

What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.

Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life.