For though we may be the Earth's gardeners, we are also its weeds. And we won't get anywhere until we come to terms with this crucial ambiguity about our role - that we are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.

Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food.

The other thing that soy contributes to, of course, is hydrogenated oil. This is the main oil. This is the fast-food oil.

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

[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.

We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.