In the rush to industrialize farming, we've lost the understanding, implicit since the beginning of agriculture, that food is a process, a web of relationships, not an individual ingredient or commodity.

Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.

It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.

I said, 'Don, what's sustainable about feeding chicken to fish?'

Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.

If you just think exclusively about what would be the best tasting or the most profitable, you're just not seeing the big picture.