Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.

Better to pay the grocer than the doctor.

The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.

You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist.

Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I’m writing about.

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.

...Only the big food manufacturers have the wherewithal to secure FDA-approved health claims for their products and then trumpet them to the world. Generally, it is the products of modern food science that make the boldest health claims, and these are often founded on incomplete and often bad science.