My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the information, they will make better ethical choices.

I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

You may not think you eat a lot of corn and soybeans, but you do: 75 percent of the vegetable oils in your diet come from soy (representing 20 percent of your daily calories) and more than half of the sweeteners you consume come from corn (representing around 10 perecent of daily calories).

Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others

Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not conducive to good health.

A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.