A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

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.

Friends are like stars you don't always see them but you know their always there

For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.

I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence

There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.

I am always reading or thinking about reading.

I'm so respectable I'm getting scared ... I must be doing something wrong.

The first spiritual quality we need to have is not faith; it is courage.

Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever.