For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.

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.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

To deny someone's feelings or experiences it to literally deny their reality.

Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.

If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.

Curiosity is one of the strongest human incentives

There is a kind of sympathy with the Americans who are looked upon as liberators.

When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head.

I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*

We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.