[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

I realize that at a certain point if we're going to change our food system, it's going to be the next generation that's going to be critical. This generation is very interested in food issues, very concerned about things like animal welfare and the impact of the food system on the environment.

Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved.

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.

You are what what you eat eats.

The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.

Food consists not just in piles of chemicals; it also comprises a set of social and ecological relationships, reaching back to the land and outward to other people.