Not that I'm against meat eating. But I think we're eating too much.

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.

You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist.

It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.

...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account for three quarters of the $2 trillion plus we spend each year on health care in this country) than preventing them.