People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

High-quality food is better for your health.

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.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics.

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.