Meatless Mondays is a dead-simple strategy. Anyone can do it, and it doesn’t require major sacrifice. Even if you eat a typical American diet replete with processed, junk and fast food the other six days of the week, going meatless… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
I live full-time in the world of omnivores, and I've never wanted to leave. But the Standard American Diet (yes, it's SAD) got to… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
Junk food companies are acting very much like tobacco companies did 30 years ago. — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
“All across Italy, as Parasecoli tells me, food is used to identify who is Italian and who is not. But dig a little deeper into the history of Italian cuisine and you will discover that many of today's iconic delicacies have their origins elsewhere. The corn used for polenta, unfortunately for Pezzutti, is not Italian. Neither is the jujube. In… — Mark Bittman Copy Share
People need help to change the way they eat... this is what government is for in my opinion… We should make food an issue… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
50-100 years from now we are all going to be eating a plant based diet. Whether that happens through a catastrophe or a peaceful… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
The truly healthy alternative to that chip is not a fake chip; it’s a carrot. — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
If you embrace moderation, eat whole foods instead of junk, live within your physical, monetary, and environmental budget rather than constantly exceeding it, you… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
If you're a progressive, if you're driving a Prius, or you're shopping green or you're looking for organic, you should probably be a semi-vegetarian. — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
