Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that they know where their food is coming from, and they can take their families out and see the farm and meet the farmer. That movement has helped create a new culture around food.

[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in.

I think of Wangari Mathai in Kenya. If she started out saying she wanted to plant 20 million trees, she would have been laughed at. In fact, the foresters and the government did laugh at her. They said, "Villagers? Un-schooled villagers? Planting trees? No, no, no, it takes foresters." So she planted trees anyway.

Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack.

Imagine sitting down to an eight ounce steak, and then, imagine the room filled wit 45 to 50 people with empty bowls...For the feed cost of your steak, each of their bowls could be filled with a cup pf cooked cereal grains.

We are very much social creatures who model ourselves on one another.

Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.