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

Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.

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.

Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved.

Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere. And if it isn't paid at the cash register, it's charged to the environment or to the public purse in the form of subsidies. And it's charged to your health.

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.

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