Almost certainly, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Yet today 50 percent of the world’s population goes hungry. Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

There are no miracles in agricultural production.

Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.