Much more has to be done to democratize the food movement. One of the reasons that healthy food is more expensive than unhealthy food is that the government supports unhealthy food and does very little to support healthy food, whether you mean organic or grass-fed or whatever.

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

One of the skills of a journalist, though, is to find people who can teach him what he needs to know. So instead of taking courses, I've been very lucky in that I found teachers - scientists, especially - who were willing to teach me what I needed to know, whether it was about genetically modified crops or how photosynthesis works, and so on. I just find my teachers and don't have to pay for my education.

Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.

It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.

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.

We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.