The federal government has more power to recall a defective stuffed animal who's little glass eye may fall off than to recall contaminated ground beef that could sicken or even kill hundreds if not thousands of people. The meat-packing industry is so powerful that it's managed to prevent the government from having this basic power of recalling a defective product.

Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people dont seem to care about the fat aspect.

During my school visits, I really enjoy the feedback I get from them much more than anything I might tell say to them.

I really like visiting schools, but what I tell students isn't anywhere near as interesting to me as what they tell me.

The people designing the weapons literally often didn't know how they were being handled in the field by the Air Force - and a lot of people in the Air Force didn't understand some of the dangers. There's a very strong element of madness in this.

Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But thats where an interesting conversation begins.

I went into the library and read about fast food and became amazed by all the stuff I didn't know. I learned that there is a whole world behind the counter that, it seemed to me, has been deliberately hidden from the public.