I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated.

I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

Good food should be a right not a privilege.

I think Americas food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, its very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.