There's a lot of research that suggests that organic yields are close or superior to conventional yields depending on factors like climate. In a drought year an organic field of corn will yield more - considerably more - than a conventional field; organic fields hold moisture better so they don't need as much water. It simply isn't true that organic yields are lower than conventional yields.

I'm not talking about having to consult Julia Child before you can take a pot off the rack. I think that's something we can all do more and do better.

Lawns are a form of television

Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.

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

We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.

The other thing that soy contributes to, of course, is hydrogenated oil. This is the main oil. This is the fast-food oil.