For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.

The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.

I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.

Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.

We're always projecting our moral categories on things. I think that's inevitable. But capitalism places no particular value on morality. Morality in the market is enforced by contract and regulation and law, because morality is understood to be in conflict with the motive force of greed and accumulation.

There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.