The current fast food that we have is inexpensive when you buy it, but the long-term costs of eating it and the long-term costs to society, are much too high. This cheap food, when you add up all the total costs, is much too expensive.

We're all connected by the system, and we all have to be a part, I think, of changing it.

I think there could hardly be a more important subject than health and nutrition.

I think for real change to happen, it's going to have to come from the kids, the community, the teachers, the parents.

Fast food chains spend a large amount of marketing to get the attention of children. People form their eating habits as children so they try to nurture clients as youngsters.

I've written about illegal immigrants in the United States; I spent a year following migrant farm workers as they were harvesting. I've written about our criminal justice system, and how it treats the victims of crime. I've been working for years now on a book about prisons in America, and I've been going into prisons and traveling around the country and seeing what's going on.

As an investigative reporter, I'm trying to uncover things and expose them to create a dialogue.