We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.

much agricultural land which might be growing food is being used instead to 'grow' money (in the form of coffee, tea, etc.).

We got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas guzzling automobiles. Big cars made sense only when oil was cheap; grain-fed meat makes sense only because the true costs of producing it are not counted.

I read a book in the late 1990s called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, and it had a profound impact on me. Fromm takes Descartes' statement, "I think, therefore I am" and changes it to "I effect, therefore I am."

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.

We evolved to be problem-solvers, to create, to be choosers of our own future!

There are surprising turning points; there is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and you never know if your action could be the straw.