If everybody walks into the room wearing crutches you don't know who can stand on their own two feet.

When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.

If everybody walks into the room wearing crutches you don't know who can stand on their own two feet.

If you have to put on a haz-mat suit to visit a farm, you may not want to eat what comes from it.

In my opinion, if there is one extremely legitimate use for petroleum besides running wood chippers and front-end loaders to handle compost, it's making plastic for season extension. It parks many of the trucks [for cross-country produce transportation]. With the trucks parked, greenhouses, tall tunnels, and more seasonal, localized eating, can we feed ourselves? We still have to answer that burning question.

Read things you're sure will disagree with your current thinking. If you're a die-hard anti-animal person, read Meat. If you're a die-hard global warming advocate, read Glenn Beck. If you're a Rush Limbaugh fan, read James W. Loewen's Lies My Teachers Told Me. It'll do your mind good and get your heart rate up.

I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight: the right to know what's in their food, and how it was grown.