We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.

Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it would be wrong to suggest we have been calling the shots, or acting always in our own best interests. Indeed, there is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.

I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things.

Avoid foods you see advertised on television.

You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.

Don't eat any foods you've ever seen advertised on television.

Eating is a political act.