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

There's a real strong link today between soda consumption and obesity among children.

The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000…. Now our food is coming from enormous assembly lines where the animals and the workers are being abused, and the food has become much more dangerous in ways that are deliberately hidden from us. This isn’t just about what we’re eating. It’s about what we’re allowed to say. What we’re allowed to know.

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

The fear of murder has grown so enormous in the United States that it leaves a taint, like the mark of Cain, on everyone murder touches.

When you go into a fast food restaurant, you may just think about how good your meal tastes while you're eating it. But you're not thinking about all the consequences that come from that one purchase - the consequences for your body, the consequences for supporting this company and how it's treating it workers, all the way back to the farm where the potatoes were grown, or the ranch where the cattle were raised.

By birth and upbringing, I think I'm emotionally resilient. I don't feel like I'm a depressive person.