The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.

There are certain products that it's worth buying organic just because the alternatives have so much pesticide. There's a list of the dirty dozen that you can get off the Web. Strawberries, potatoes. A handful of crops that have very high pesticide residues if you don't buy organic. If you eat that a lot, that's a good place to invest.

The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.

...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.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

Avoid food products with more than five ingredients; with ingredients you can't pronounce.