... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our identity. As long as humans have been taking meals together, eating has been as much about culture as it has been about biology.

Students are very engaged by the issues, and it's not surprising because food choices are one of the few powers a child has.

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

Any kind of food you eat is going to have an impact on the world. If you switch to tofu and get off meat, the soy bean is doing enormous damage in the Amazon and all throughout South America.

Without the potatoe, the balance of European power might never have tilted north