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

Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

People who snack sometimes sometimes eat kind of thoughtlessly and end up eating a lot more. But in principle, it's a really good idea if you can exert the kind of discipline needed.

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

Without the potatoe, the balance of European power might never have tilted north

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