If you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a strong indication it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat

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

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

Pay more, eat less. Diversify your diet and eat wild foods when you can.

Not that I'm against meat eating. But I think we're eating too much.

What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

I think historically modern economics, capitalist economics, tends to erode moral categories... And this is where I think the right gets capitalism wrong. They kind of assume that there is a moral equivalence or moral valence to capitalism, but I tend to think that economics erodes all the kind of cultural taboos and inhibitions and values it comes into contact with.