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.

Eating is a political act.

People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.

The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.

In a way, the most morally troubling thing about killing chickens is that after a while it is no longer morally troubling.

American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others: Since 1980, the price of sweeteners and added fats (most of them derived, respectively, from subsidized corn and subsidized soybeans), dropped 20 percent, while the price of fresh fruits and vegetables increased by 40 percent.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.