Do all your eating at a table.

In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to draw the line.

Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I’m writing about.

Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.

We need to create incentives for our ranchers and farmers to manage their lands to maximize carbon sequestration.

One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to corporations, they tend to cook with far too much salt, fat, and sugar.

Don't ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap.