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

The obesity epidemic among American children is becoming so bad that I think there's a growing realization across the country that we've got to change what we're feeding our kids and that school may be a really good place to start.

I hate the word "inevitable" because I feel like things don't have to be the way they are.

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.

A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.

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

I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more intrigued I became.