It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.

Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.

There are fundamental tensions between the biological reality of the planet and the economic reality. To some extent you can adapt the economy, create a new set of rules and incentives to send it down a better track, but finally people in the first world are going to have to consume a whole lot less.

This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing

Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.