The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Not that I'm against meat eating. But I think we're eating too much. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It's very important to get out, to do reporting. It's also really interesting. I come at it as a journalist, and I… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I'm not talking about having to consult Julia Child before you can take a pot off the rack. I think that's something… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I think using waste oils as fuel makes sense. We do waste a huge amount of vegetable oil in this country and… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Nutrition science is where surgery was in about 1650, you know, really interesting and promising, but would you want to have them… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a homebody, and the rhythm of my thinking and work is starting at home, going out and coming back,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I really do think that cooking is very important. It's really important for the farmers because it means you're going to be… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I think that there's some brainwashing going on with this idea that we don't have time to cook anymore. We have made… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I think historically modern economics, capitalist economics, tends to erode moral categories... And this is where I think the right gets capitalism… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, spending on health care has… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
One surprise is how deeply the food system is implicated in climate change. I don't think that has really been on people's… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
You may not think you eat a lot of corn and soybeans, but you do: 75 percent of the vegetable oils in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I think there's a real tension between capitalism and morality. That's not to say these systems aren't powerful and useful, but to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We're always projecting our moral categories on things. I think that's inevitable. But capitalism places no particular value on morality. Morality in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We're spending, on average, 27 minutes a day cooking and about four minutes cleaning up, so basically about a half hour. Any… — 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
