Shake the hand that feeds you.

You may not think you eat a lot of corn and soybeans, but you do: 75 percent of the vegetable oils in your diet come from soy (representing 20 percent of your daily calories) and more than half of the sweeteners you consume come from corn (representing around 10 perecent of daily calories).

I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.

But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.

Everything we eat begins with a plant turning solar energy into carbohydrates. Everything. Whether we're eating meat or eating vegetables, it all begins there. So I'm always interested in taking things back to the beginning.

Avoid food products that make health claims. at meals and eat them only at tables. And no, a desk is not a table.

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.