The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If you care about the animals, actually, organic might not be the best answer because now we have organic feedlots, organic factory… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I realize that at a certain point if we're going to change our food system, it's going to be the next generation… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We're supposed to show people how the world is, to give them the tools they need to make good decisions as citizens… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Species co-evolve with the other species they eat, and very often, a relationship of interdependence develops: I'll feed you if you spread… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I work very hard on finding good characters who can explain things to me, and I use them to help tell the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which… — 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
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 visit a modern Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) is to enter a world that for all its technological sophistication is still… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologies come into conflict with nature's ways of doing things,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of… — 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
![“But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those in the same tissues of Mexicans report that it is now we in the North who are the true people of corn… Compared to us, Mexicans today consume a far more…” quote by Michael Pollan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0c7/michael-pollan-408_animal_but-carbon-13-the-carbon-from-corn-doesn_1740195.png)
