The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

Time is the missing ingredient in our recipes-and in our lives.

All the arguments about nutrition are really about what is the problem ingredient in the western diet. Is it the fat? Is it the lack of fiber? Is it the refined carbohydrates?But we don't have to worry about it. We just have to try to get off that diet to the extent we can.

There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig - an animal easily as intelligent as a dog - that becomes the Christmas ham.

Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.

The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship.

Better to pay the grocer than the doctor.