This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.

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

I agree insofar as we eat too much meat. We're eating about 200 pounds per person per year. That's about 9 ounces a day. That's probably more than is good for us and it's certainly more than is good for the environment.

Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologies come into conflict with nature's ways of doing things, as when we seek to maximize efficiency by planting crops or raising animals in vast mono-cultures. This is something nature never does, always and for good reasons practicing diversity instead. A great many of the health and environmental problems created by our food system owe to our attempts to oversimplify nature's complexities, at both the growing and the eating ends of our food chain.

In a way, the most morally troubling thing about killing chickens is that after a while it is no longer morally troubling.

The other thing that soy contributes to, of course, is hydrogenated oil. This is the main oil. This is the fast-food oil.