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.

So that's us: processed corn, walking.

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

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.

There are fundamental tensions between the biological reality of the planet and the economic reality. To some extent you can adapt the economy, create a new set of rules and incentives to send it down a better track, but finally people in the first world are going to have to consume a whole lot less.

Stop eating before you're full.

It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.