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.

we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin)

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.

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

Lawns are a form of television

Eating is a political act.