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

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not

Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn't recognize as food.. stay away from these

Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

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.

I work very hard on finding good characters who can explain things to me, and I use them to help tell the story. I organize my pieces not just around people but around animals and plants, energy flows, the path that carbon takes through the food system.