You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money... It's understanding that our daily choices about food connect us to a worldwide economic system. And that economic system - not scarcity - creates worldwide hunger for millions of people.

Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.

The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite.

I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem - and eating some of it doesn't directly take food out of the mouths of starving people - but it is, to me, a symbol and a symptom of the basic irrationality of a food system that's divorced from human needs. Therefore, using less meat can be an important way to take responsibility. Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help remind us that our whole society must begin to balance sustainable production with human need.

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.

With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible.

We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers.