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

I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.

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.

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

We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.

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

Clean plates don't lie.