My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.

A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius.

In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not eaten by humans as food, however.

People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain.

I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.

...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.