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Without food, we cannot survive, and that is why issues that affect the food industry are so important.

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

No one wins in the industrial food system.

Along with all the other stunning statistics China can provide, it can also claim to be the world leader in making energy from human excrement. Biogas, as this energy is known, can be produced from the fermentation of any organic material, from wood to vegetables to human excreta.

You can't live if you don't eat, but you don't live to eat. And neither does business exist primarily to make a profit. It exists to fulfill its purpose, whatever that might be.

One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period.

Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.

In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.

Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat.

Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.