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.