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

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.

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.

Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation.

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, This kid is not growing up, he is growing tall but he can be broken like a banana.

I write in order to belong.

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point.

I go to various boot camps 4-5 times a week, and I try to get some Pilates in there to thin and tone.

I'm good where I am at this moment.