...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees.

...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees.

...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account for three quarters of the $2 trillion plus we spend each year on health care in this country) than preventing them.

The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.

For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world.

Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of turkeys are the Broad-Breasted Whites.

There are things we know and things we don't know about food. But there are certain basic things we do know, and that's what I've tried to build these rules on.