People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.

Better to pay the grocer than the doctor.

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.

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

My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the information, they will make better ethical choices.

People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain.