While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of ability than priority. p.187

Pay more, eat less. Diversify your diet and eat wild foods when you can.

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.

Eat only until you're 4/5 full. An ancient Japanese injunction.

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.