The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.

In a way, the most morally troubling thing about killing chickens is that after a while it is no longer morally troubling.

The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.

In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not eaten by humans as food, however.

...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

We're supposed to show people how the world is, to give them the tools they need to make good decisions as citizens or consumers. Depending on what your values are - the environment, your health, animal welfare - the answers are going to be different for every person.

A French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the ‘pieds de Dieu’—the feet of god. Just to be clear: foot odor of a particularly exalted quality, but still—foot odor.