Food is not rational. Food is culture habit craving and identity.

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food but with the price of food.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

If you're using first-class land for biofuels then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance marketing distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture.

The art and culture that is New York communications finance all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

But having said that what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.