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

Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.

A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.

American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others: Since 1980, the price of sweeteners and added fats (most of them derived, respectively, from subsidized corn and subsidized soybeans), dropped 20 percent, while the price of fresh fruits and vegetables increased by 40 percent.

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.

It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.

We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow people to eat well cheaply. For example making three or four meals from a chicken, rather than buying chicken breasts.