35 Food Waste Quotes Encouraging Changing Food Habits

"When we waste food, we waste the potential to create a more equitable and sustainable world."
- Emily Broad Leib

"Food waste isn't considered a problem because, for the most part, it isn't considered at all. It's easy to ignore because it's both common and customary.. I have yet to meet someone who is pro-food waste, but many aren't convinced that it's important."
- Jonathan Bloom

"If food loss and waste were a country, it would be the third biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions."
- Inger Anderson

"To me, it's sort of funny that wasting food is not taboo. It's one of the last environmental ills that you can just get away with."
- Jonathan Bloom

"It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered."
- Julian Baggini

"Most of us generate more planet-warming emissions from eating than we do from driving or flying. Food production now accounts for about a fifth of total greenhouse gas emissions annually, which means that agriculture contributes more than any other sector, including energy and transportation, to climate change."
- Amanda Little

"We're taught that food in a dumpster is waste. But when you find bags of bread that are perfectly good, all of a sudden that waste turns into bounty. That's an important shift in perception"
- Zal Batmanglij

"Imagine walking out of a grocery store with four bags of groceries, dropping one in the parking lot, and just not bothering to pick it up. That's essentially what we're doing."
- Dana Gunders

"We live in a world where we grow enough food to feed everyone, yet one-third of all food produced is wasted."
- José Graziano da Silva

"Together, we can reverse this unacceptable trend and improve lives. In industrialized regions, almost half of the total food squandered, around 300 million tons annually, occurs because producers, retailers and consumers discard food that is still fit for consumption."
- José Graziano da Silva

"In many places in the developed world, we eat or waste probably twice as much food calories as we really need. We're wasteful of food. We ship all over the world. We're not releasing that generating the energy to ship the food around the world is also ruining our climate."
- Nina Federoff

"In a world of seven billion people, set to grow to nine billion by 2050, wasting food makes no sense – economically, environmentally and ethically, aside from the cost implications, all the land, water, fertilizers and labor needed to grow that food is wasted – not to mention the generation of greenhouse gas emissions produced by food decomposing in landfills and the transport of food that is ultimately thrown away."
- Achim Steiner

"We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should."
- Bill Gates

"One of the most important lessons I learned along the way was how to reduce waste in the creation of food – to make sure all the food ingredients are portable and can be used on more than one dish."
- Quyen Trinh

"When you look at all the food that's wasted, households produce most of it. We waste more food than supermarkets, restaurants, farms, or anywhere else in the supply chain."
- Dana Gunders

"The solution to food waste is not just to eat everything we buy, but to buy only what we truly need."
- Selina Juul

"Feel what it's like to really starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food."
- Criss Jami

"I credit my grandmother for teaching me to love and respect food. She taught me how to waste nothing, to make sure I used every bit of the chicken and boil the bones till no flavor could be extracted from them."
- Marcus Samuelsson

"Cutting food waste is a delicious way of saving money, helping to feed the world and protect the planet"
- Tristram Stuart

"Supermarkets didn't even want to talk to me about how much food they were wasting. I'd been round the back. I'd seen bins full of food being locked and then trucked off to landfill sites, and I thought, surely there is something more sensible to do with food than waste it."
- Tristram Stuart

"Food waste is a global problem that demands local solutions."
- Tristram Stuart

"In the United States, under 3 percent of municipal food waste - so that's the food scraps that goes into people's garbage cans - actually gets recycled. If you go to a place like South Korea, the exact reverse is the case. It's about 3 percent that doesn't get recycled."
- Tristram Stuart

"Food waste is a call to action for individuals, businesses, and governments to work together for a more sustainable future."
- Tristram Stuart

"Cutting food waste is a delicious way of saving money, helping to feed the world and protect the planet"
- Tristram Stuart

"Don't waste food. Someone is sleeping on an empty stomach."
- Omer Syed

"We are trashing our land to grow food that no one eats."
- Tristram Stuart

"Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry."
- Pope Francis

"When we waste food, we also waste the opportunities to address food insecurity and hunger."
- Dave Lewis

"You waste life when you waste good food."
- Katherine Anne Porter

"Preserve and treat food as you would your body, remembering that in time, food will be your body."
- B. W. Richardson

"If you want to eliminate hunger, everybody has to be involved."
- Bono

"Respect for food is a respect for life, for who we are and what we do."
- Thomas Keller

"There is food for everyone on this planet, but not everyone eats."
- Carlo Petrini

"Food waste is an atrocity that is reducible, if not completely avoidable."
- Stephen Hough

"Let's treat food with respect and not waste it."
- Massimo Bottura