Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first.

This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without conscience, without knowledge; folks, this ain't normal.

I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming.

The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'

If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.

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.