Michael Pollan

But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.

— Michael Pollan

“The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.” This”

— Michael Pollan

“Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself. There”

— Michael Pollan

...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

— Michael Pollan

Don't eat any foods you've ever seen advertised on television.

— Michael Pollan

I don't think of myself as a spiritual person.

— Michael Pollan

Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.

— Michael Pollan

The way you support farmers is by shopping and buying raw ingredients.

— Michael Pollan

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those…

— Michael Pollan

Without the potatoe, the balance of European power might never have tilted north

— Michael Pollan

I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about…

— Michael Pollan

Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.

— Michael Pollan

Depending on how you farm, your farm is either sequestering or releasing carbon.

— Michael Pollan

“My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.”

— Michael Pollan

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

— Michael Pollan

The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.

— Michael Pollan

You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based ethanol, before agricultural subsidies. I mean, even McCain…

— Michael Pollan

As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing…

— Michael Pollan

One of my rules is pay more, eat less. You do get what you pay for, and if you're willing to pay…

— Michael Pollan

“...-compost is trucked in; some crops also receive fish emulsion along with their water and a side dressing of pelleted chicken manure.…

— Michael Pollan

Hillary Clinton is not strongly identified with reforming the industrial food system. The Clintons were involved with Walmart and Tyson in Arkansas.…

— Michael Pollan

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

The soybean itself is a notably inauspicious staple food; it contains a whole assortment of "antinutrients" - compounds that actually block the…

— Michael Pollan

There's always a tension in my world between the pragmatic and the practical and the theoretical. I have a very theoretical turn…

— Michael Pollan

“Uncle Jeff insisted that I also take a tray of unseasoned barbecue, so I could see for myself that what's going on…

— Michael Pollan

“The repetitive phases of cooking leave plenty of mental space for reflection, and as I chopped and minced and sliced I thought…

— Michael Pollan

“To cook for the pleasure of it, to devote a portion of our leisure to it, is to declare our independence from…

— Michael Pollan

“nine of every ten cells in our bodies belong not to us, but to these microbial species (most of them residents of…

— Michael Pollan

“One problem with the division of labor in our complex economy is how it obscures the lines of connection, and therefore of…

— Michael Pollan

“Mowing the lawn, I felt like I was battling the earth rather than working it; each week it sent forth a green…

— Michael Pollan

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

It's estimated that about 30 percent of the increase in grain prices could be attributed to the decision to embrace biofuels, particularly…

— Michael Pollan

So that's us: processed corn, walking.

— Michael Pollan

Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.

— Michael Pollan

Better to pay the grocer than the doctor.

— Michael Pollan

Eat slowly, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.

— Michael Pollan

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.

— Michael Pollan

Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.

— Michael Pollan

The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.

— Michael Pollan

Don't eat anything that won't eventually rot.

— Michael Pollan