... 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.

Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

Not that I'm against meat eating. But I think we're eating too much.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

Avoid foods you see advertised on television.

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.

We're always projecting our moral categories on things. I think that's inevitable. But capitalism places no particular value on morality. Morality in the market is enforced by contract and regulation and law, because morality is understood to be in conflict with the motive force of greed and accumulation.