Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.

What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.

Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by green plants and stored in the form of complex carbon molecules. A food chain is a system for passing those calories on to species that lack the pant's unique ability to synthesize them from sunlight.

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.

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

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.