When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.

One of the powerful things about the food issue is that people feel empowered by it. There are so many areas of our life where we feel powerless to change things, but your eating issues are really primal. You decide every day what you're going to put in your body and what you refuse to put in your body. That's politics at its most basic.

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

We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.

You are what what you eat eats.

In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to draw the line.

Not that I'm against meat eating. But I think we're eating too much.