The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.

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.

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.

People, and boys the worst, are so much more intelligent than what comes out of their mouths.

When we appreciate and express gratitude for the abundance in our life our lives become more abundant.

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

A true Muslim is like rain, wherever it falls, it will benefit.

I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops... Eventually companion animals would be phased out.

Gluttony, do not eat thy neighbor's wife's popcorn.

The power of life that is buried deep inside you will never rise up until you have become convinced that you're walking the only path open for you.

You're not wearing mink knickers,are you?

Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.