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

The banquet is in the first bite.

We're always projecting our moral categories on things. I think that's inevitable. But capitalism places no particular value on morality. Morality in the market is enforced by contract and regulation and law, because morality is understood to be in conflict with the motive force of greed and accumulation.

Don't ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap.

The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.

Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.

A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You look at things ecologically. When you see a cow on a feedlot, you don't just see a cow; you see a cow that is eating certain food. You follow that food and that food takes you back to a corn field.