Animal Quotes by Michael Pollan

The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however…

— Michael Pollan

The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship.

— Michael Pollan

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the…

— Michael Pollan

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our…

— Michael Pollan

Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved.

— Michael Pollan

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill,…

— Michael Pollan

If you care about the animals, actually, organic might not be the best answer because now we have organic feedlots, organic factory…

— Michael Pollan

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

I work very hard on finding good characters who can explain things to me, and I use them to help tell the…

— Michael Pollan

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

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

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory…

— Michael Pollan

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

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

A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which…

— 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

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

“To visit a modern Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) is to enter a world that for all its technological sophistication is still…

— Michael Pollan

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

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

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