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Eating Quotes by Michael Pollan

48 Eating quotes by Michael Pollan

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Michael Pollan urges you to eat with awareness, savoring each bite and knowing where it came from. He says cooking for yourself is a way to reclaim control from big food companies. He also notes that food turns nature into culture, shaping our bodies, minds, and communities.

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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

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Do all your eating at a table.

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Eating is a political act.

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You are what what you eat eats.

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Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.

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Stop eating before you're full.

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Not that I'm against meat eating. But I think we're eating too much.

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If you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't be eating it.

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“We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.”

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Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.

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... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming…

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Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating.

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Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those…

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“Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.”

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People who snack sometimes sometimes eat kind of thoughtlessly and end up eating a lot more. But in principle, it's a really…

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It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the…

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

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There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest.

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Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that…

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Cooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors,…

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The issue of snacking is complicated. In principle, "grazing" is probably a good idea. It would even out the insulin spikes and…

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I agree insofar as we eat too much meat. We're eating about 200 pounds per person per year. That's about 9 ounces…

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Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those…

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Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our…

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One of my rules is pay more, eat less. You do get what you pay for, and if you're willing to pay…

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Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi…

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“Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though…

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“The repetitive phases of cooking leave plenty of mental space for reflection, and as I chopped and minced and sliced I thought…

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“What is most troubling, and sad, about industrial eating is how thoroughly it obscures all these relationships and connections. To go from…

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Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologies come into conflict with nature's ways of doing things,…

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One surprise is how deeply the food system is implicated in climate change. I don't think that has really been on people's…

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“imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is…

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That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of…

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The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the…

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Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not…

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One of the most irresponsible things we can do is eat in ignorance, without any awareness of what our eating is doing…

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People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more…

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One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating…

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The first step towards solving the omnivore's dilemma is knowledge: eating with full consciousness. When that happens, I have a lot of…

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Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of…

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“CONSULT YOUR GUT.”