...Only the big food manufacturers have the wherewithal to secure FDA-approved health claims for their products and then trumpet them to the world. Generally, it is the products of modern food science that make the boldest health claims, and these are often founded on incomplete and often bad science.

It's really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will use cooking for you.

The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.

There are things we know and things we don't know about food. But there are certain basic things we do know, and that's what I've tried to build these rules on.

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

If you're a politician it's very useful to say that we can have economic growth and at the same time green the economy, but writers just have to face up to the fact that there are some fundamental tensions between the economic order and the biological order.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.