Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life.

The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.

I had the realization that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, it is caused by the production system and an absence of democracy throughout the world.

Diane Wilson asked, "Why aren't people upset? Why aren't people protesting?" The mayor and county commissioners told her to keep quiet, and everybody else was afraid to speak out against the companies, which included some of the country's biggest chemical companies. There were even attempts on her life. Family members abandoned her, and certainly none of the other shrimpers stood with her.

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

I was a compulsive eater in my late teens and until I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, so I know what it feels like when food becomes a threat.

Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity.