We're supposed to show people how the world is, to give them the tools they need to make good decisions as citizens or consumers. Depending on what your values are - the environment, your health, animal welfare - the answers are going to be different for every person.

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not

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

Eat slowly, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

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.

The first step towards solving the omnivore's dilemma is knowledge: eating with full consciousness. When that happens, I have a lot of confidence that people will make good choices.