Don't get your fuel from the same place your car does

Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.

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

People eating the western diet of heavily processed food, of lots of meat and added sugar and added fat, and very little whole grains and fruits and vegetables.Populations who eat that way have seriously high incidences of chronic diseases.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

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.

I realize that at a certain point if we're going to change our food system, it's going to be the next generation that's going to be critical. This generation is very interested in food issues, very concerned about things like animal welfare and the impact of the food system on the environment.