Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I’m writing about.

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.

Christians have the spiritual mandate to establish the Kingdom of God in their own lives and in their society.

For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.

This generation must know that the total truthfulness of the bible is under continual assault.

The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.

I think I am incredibly generous with how much I give to my projects, but that's my generosity with the job.

As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

The man who prays ceases to be a fool

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.