Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.

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

California’s Proposition 37, which would require that genetically modified (G.M.) foods carry a label, has the potential to do just that - to change the politics of food not just in California but nationally too.

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

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

There's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.

The first step towards solving the omnivore's dilemma is knowledge: eating with full consciousness. When that happens, I have a lot of confidence that people will make good choices.