I agree insofar as we eat too much meat. We're eating about 200 pounds per person per year. That's about 9 ounces a day. That's probably more than is good for us and it's certainly more than is good for the environment.

This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.

Studies show that organically grown crops produce more of the things (ascorbic acid, lycopenes, resveratrol, flavonols in general, etc) that our bodies need and also have less toxic residue. Science is still catching up with this. J. Agric. Food. Chem. Vol. 51, no. 5, 2003.

Students are very engaged by the issues, and it's not surprising because food choices are one of the few powers a child has.

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.