If you're eating grassland meat, your carbon footprint is light and possibly even negative. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it's one of the most… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Depending on how you farm, your farm is either sequestering or releasing carbon. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We need to create incentives for our ranchers and farmers to manage their lands to maximize carbon sequestration. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We could have a greener economy, even a greener consumer economy by changing the rules - whether it's by taxing carbon or… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's… — 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
Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by… — 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 Image
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 Image
The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.” — 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 small measure… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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 Image
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/0c7/michael-pollan-408_animal_but-carbon-13-the-carbon-from-corn-doesn_1740195.jpg)
