Pay more, eat less. Diversify your diet and eat wild foods when you can.

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.

There's a lot of research that suggests that organic yields are close or superior to conventional yields depending on factors like climate. In a drought year an organic field of corn will yield more - considerably more - than a conventional field; organic fields hold moisture better so they don't need as much water. It simply isn't true that organic yields are lower than conventional yields.

Without the potatoe, the balance of European power might never have tilted north

Avoid food products with more than five ingredients; with ingredients you can't pronounce.

Avoid food products that make health claims. at meals and eat them only at tables. And no, a desk is not a table.

A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius.