"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."

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"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."

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"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."

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"Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world."

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"More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most."

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

Environment

"My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me."

Writing

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

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"So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer."

Environment

"There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with."

Nature

"A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule."

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"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."

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"I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not."

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

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