In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to draw the line.

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

Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved.

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.

People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain.

Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.

America ships tons of sugar cookies to Denmark and Denmark ships tons of sugar cookies to America. Wouldn't it be more efficient just to swap recipes?