Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's the embrace of corn-based ethanol that has driven up all food prices. It's not making agriculture more sustainable. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If you fill your Agriculture Committee with representatives of commodity farmers, and you don't have urbanites, you don't represent eaters, okay? You… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A program to make municipal composting of food and yard waste mandatory and then distributing the compost free to area farmers would… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
McDonald's is in a unique position. They can decide they don't want meat with hormones in it, and that will be the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook our food, we're going to have a huge, industrialized,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Polyface Farm is built on the efficiencies that come from mimicking relationships found in nature and layering one farm enterprise over another… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
When a livestock farmer is willing to "practice complexity"-to choreograph the symbiosis of several different animals, each of which has been allowed… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
To a very great extent, it's the fast-food industry that really industrialized our agriculture - that drove the system to one variety… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
My hope is that if people have the knowledge, and if they actually see where their food comes from and have access to the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries. — Michael Pollan Copy Share
Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
“In ancient Greece, the word for “cook,” “butcher,” and “priest” was the same—mageiros—and the word shares an etymological root with “magic.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share
In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
“The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory.” Although by any conventional measure it is folly to pay… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
“Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share
Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of what it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
“...whenever I hear people say clean food is expensive, I tell them it's actually the cheapest food you can buy. That always gets their… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
“Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that restored the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
