People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest - the added sugars and fats in processed foods.

Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.

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.

Shake the hand that feeds you.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship.