The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

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

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.

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.

War takes many things from people, but unfortunately, pain is not one of them.

James is all I have. I chose James. He has to be right. Please let him be right.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

My biggest concern for this generation is your inability to focus, especially in prayer.

There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.

The contemporary Christian mind is starved, and as a result we have small, impoverished souls.

I think George W. Bush's personality was overwhelmingly shaped in negative ways by his upbringing.

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.

It feels like God visits everywhere else, but lives in Africa.