Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless.

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

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

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.

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.