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
“There is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.” — 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
It's the embrace of corn-based ethanol that has driven up all food prices. It's not making agriculture more sustainable. — 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries. — Michael Pollan Copy Share
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
“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
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
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
“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
“Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most afflicts the gardener.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share
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
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
“...whenever I hear people say clean food is expensive, I tell them it's actually the cheapest food you can buy. That always gets their… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
“Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that restored the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share
![“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/i/0c7/michael-pollan-408_animal_but-carbon-13-the-carbon-from-corn-doesn_1740195.png)
