Oil companies have gas stations. There's this whole huge structure that is about finding a new liquid for the tank. And the idea that maybe there shouldn't be a liquid, that maybe the best is an electrical grid, a sustainably powered electrical grid that we all plug into, that doesn't sit well with oil companies.

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

People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human - in the fact that so much of what we desire for our happiness and need for our survival comes at a heavy cost.

Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I’m writing about.

One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to corporations, they tend to cook with far too much salt, fat, and sugar.

One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.

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