Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of what it is, it's enormously satisfying.

There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig - an animal easily as intelligent as a dog - that becomes the Christmas ham.

Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.

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

Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.