Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

We need to create incentives for our ranchers and farmers to manage their lands to maximize carbon sequestration.

Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.

It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.

The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.

Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently concluded in a landmark review article on microbial ecology - that is, as a function of the community, not the individual.