A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You look at things ecologically. When you see a cow on a feedlot, you don't just see a cow; you see a cow that is eating certain food. You follow that food and that food takes you back to a corn field.

Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.

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

To put it bluntly, we now need to reverse course. We need more highly skilled small farmers in more places all across America - not as a matter of nostalgia for the agrarian past but as a matter of national security. For nations that lose the ability to substantially feed themselves will find themselves as gravely compromised in their international dealings as nations that depend on foreign sources of oil presently do. But while there are alternatives to oil, there are no alternatives to food.

Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not conducive to good health.

I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.

Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of your milk.