Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating.

Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world domination, it would be wrong to suggest we have been calling the shots, or acting always in our own best interests. Indeed, there is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.

...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees.

The other way that you democratize the food movement is through the public school system. If you can pay enough for the school lunch system so that it can actually be cooked and not just microwaved, so that these schools can buy local food, fresh food, because right now it's all frozen and processed, you will improve the health of the students, you will improve the health of the local economy, and you will have better performing students.

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.