Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.

In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to draw the line.

More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.

Corporations cook very differently from how people do.

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.

Oil companies have gas stations. There's this whole huge structure that is about finding a new liquid for the tank. And the idea that maybe there shouldn't be a liquid, that maybe the best is an electrical grid, a sustainably powered electrical grid that we all plug into, that doesn't sit well with oil companies.