Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

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 problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.

Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.

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.

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