Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.

A farmer friend of mine told me recently about a busload of middle school children who came to his farm for a tour. The first two boys off the bus asked, "Where is the salsa tree?" They thought they could go pick salsa, like apples and peaches. Oh my. What do they put on SAT tests to measure this? Does anybody care? How little can a person know about food and still make educated decisions about it? Is this knowledge going to change before they enter the voting booth? Now that's a scary thought.

Remember, machines don't forgive.

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

Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system builders.

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.