Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats; fats against carbs.

Imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost.

But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.

Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of your milk.