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

We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health. And in the inner city, people don't have grocery stores. They have to get on a bus and take a long ride to get to a source of fresh produce.

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.

Not that I'm against meat eating. But I think we're eating too much.

One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to corporations, they tend to cook with far too much salt, fat, and sugar.

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

Nature abhors a garden.