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

The first step towards solving the omnivore's dilemma is knowledge: eating with full consciousness. When that happens, I have a lot of confidence that people will make good choices.

The banquet is in the first bite.

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

[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

I think historically modern economics, capitalist economics, tends to erode moral categories... And this is where I think the right gets capitalism wrong. They kind of assume that there is a moral equivalence or moral valence to capitalism, but I tend to think that economics erodes all the kind of cultural taboos and inhibitions and values it comes into contact with.

It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.