Organic Oreos are not a health food. When Coca-Cola begins selling organic Coke, as it surely will, the company will have struck a blow for the environment perhaps, but not for our health. Most consumers automatically assume that the word "organic" is synomymous with health, but it makes no difference to your insulin metabolism if the high-fructose corn syrup in your soda is organic.

My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

Everything we eat begins with a plant turning solar energy into carbohydrates. Everything. Whether we're eating meat or eating vegetables, it all begins there. So I'm always interested in taking things back to the beginning.

Better to pay the grocer than the doctor.

What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

The food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at Safeway; they're not going to the farmers' market. Those people need choices too.

One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.