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

Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

Eat only until you're 4/5 full. An ancient Japanese injunction.

...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.

Everything we eat begins with a plant turning solar energy into carbohydrates. Everything. Whether we're eating meat or eating vegetables, it all begins there. So I'm always interested in taking things back to the beginning.

People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.

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