A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.

The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains as well as our fields so that when some of them fail, we can still eat.

American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others: Since 1980, the price of sweeteners and added fats (most of them derived, respectively, from subsidized corn and subsidized soybeans), dropped 20 percent, while the price of fresh fruits and vegetables increased by 40 percent.

...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees.

It's really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will use cooking for you.

...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account for three quarters of the $2 trillion plus we spend each year on health care in this country) than preventing them.

You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.