Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Cooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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
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
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn.… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“For an American like me, growing up linked to a very different food chain, yet one that is also rooted in a… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There's a lot of research that suggests that organic yields are close or superior to conventional yields depending on factors like climate.… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off… — 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
Organic Oreos are not a health food. When Coca-Cola begins selling organic Coke, as it surely will, the company will have struck… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose… — 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
Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn feeds the chicken and the pig, the turkey, and the lamb,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. This… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Corn is the hero of its own story, and though we humans played a crucial supporting role in its rise to world… — 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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