I don't want to sound too mystical or weird but it's important to know what garlic smells like when it's cooking, or what eggs look like when they're cracked out of a shell.

The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.

Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?

I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.

Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

Amazingly, we’ve become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe.

You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.

If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.

The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.

If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

We are lucky to live in a world made up of so many different kinds of people and I am confident in the direction we are going.

Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.

It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.

[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.

For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.

No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.

I have three dogs, a cat, fish. I'm a huge animal lover. They're amazing.