There are things we know and things we don't know about food. But there are certain basic things we do know, and that's what I've tried to build these rules on.

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.

Don't underestimate anyone, not even yourself.

Politics is shit

And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.

And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation

The amount of scientific information we've discovered in the last twenty years is more than all the discoveries up to that point, from the beginning of language.

In the United States 95% of the people who win elections have the most money. That's it. So, money is a big part of elections. But that happens all the time.

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.

The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi.

Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments.

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.