Studies show that organically grown crops produce more of the things (ascorbic acid, lycopenes, resveratrol, flavonols in general, etc) that our bodies need and also have less toxic residue. Science is still catching up with this. J. Agric. Food. Chem. Vol. 51, no. 5, 2003.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

I work very hard on finding good characters who can explain things to me, and I use them to help tell the story. I organize my pieces not just around people but around animals and plants, energy flows, the path that carbon takes through the food system.

The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.

Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.

Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

If you care about the animals, actually, organic might not be the best answer because now we have organic feedlots, organic factory farms. If you care about the environment - pesticides, especially - organic is the answer.