If you're eating grassland meat, your carbon footprint is light and possibly even negative. — 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
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
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
We need to create incentives for our ranchers and farmers to manage their lands to maximize carbon sequestration. — 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
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
Depending on how you farm, your farm is either sequestering or releasing carbon. — 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 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
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