Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.

Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved.

It's more important that you eat vegetables, even if they are conventional -- I'm talking about for your health -- then it is until you wait until you can afford organic, or you can find organic.

There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest.

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.