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

Just because we can ship organic lettuce from the Salinas Valley, or organic cut flowers from Peru, doesn't mean we should do it, not if we're really serious about energy and seasonality and bioregionalism.

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.

You can't chemical your way out of soil infertility

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

You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food.

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