Students can do experiments and investigate for themselves what's going on in restaurants, in our food system, and begin a process of learning.

Yes, a cheeseburger and fries is probably my favourite meal. But I don't eat ground beef anymore.

The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.

Years ago when I got stuck, I'd start twirling my hair. That's not possible anymore. I can't prove the relationship between writing and hair loss, but I think I pulled out a fair amount trying to work on certain sentences.

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

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.

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