How many of us lobby for green energy or protected lands, but don't engage with the local bounty to lay by for tomorrow's unseasonal reality? That we tend to not even think about this as a foundation for solutions in our food systems shows how quickly we want other people to solve these issues.

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

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?'

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.

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

The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.