People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.
From Michael Pollan
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
My work has gotten more political over time, but once you start exploring food, you find you're up against economics and politics and psychology and anthropology, all of these different things you have to deal with.
A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.
For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.
I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.
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.
I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
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