Stop eating before you're full.

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.

American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others: Since 1980, the price of sweeteners and added fats (most of them derived, respectively, from subsidized corn and subsidized soybeans), dropped 20 percent, while the price of fresh fruits and vegetables increased by 40 percent.

The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.

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