What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.

The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.

The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power.

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.

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.

As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source.