Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food.

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

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.

Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who don't have the money to invest in better food, but perhaps they have the time. There's a trade-off: The more time you're willing to put into food preparation, the less money you have to spend.

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

The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.