Courtland Milloy is a columnist for the Washington Post. In his career he has covered a wide variety of topics, local crime, politics, foreign policy, lifestyle and many more. These days he’s writing a lot about health, his own and that of the friends and family around him. He’s written a number of columns on the topic, which started with one entitled “I Will Eat Healthier. And This Time I Mean It.”

“When I look at the outrage over what’s happening in the Amazon with the fires to make more land to grow more cattle so the U.S. can have bigger steaks… there’s an outcry over that. People are seeing global connections and understanding food sustainability. And I think that along with renewed activism around climate change (and) the growth of urban gardening… people are starting to link the worst parts of our diet with some of our worst behaviors.” Courtland Milloy, columnist for the Washington Post on the value of plant based diets