We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

You do need some dispensation for local farmers, because the fast food industry will promote the unsanitary conditions of farming. With vegetables, you have to be careful where they come from; you have to know the farmers and trust them. If you buy from the farmers' market, it's already been investigated.

The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.

A whole set of values comes with fast food: Everything should be fast, cheap and easy; there's always more where that came from; there are no seasons; you shouldn't be paid very much for preparing food. It's uniformity and a lack of connection.

The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.