No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.

You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people.

I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered.

The peace process doesn't seem to be in such good shape anyway. It's teetering on the brink of collapse, even before today's decision. This will bring it one step closer to final collapse.

The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.

There's a short chain between field and fork, and the shorter that chain is - the fresher, the more transparent that system is - the less chance there is of anything from bio-terrorism to pathogenicity to spoilage.