“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”
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The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
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.
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.
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.