I realize that at a certain point if we're going to change our food system, it's going to be the next generation… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
People eating the western diet of heavily processed food, of lots of meat and added sugar and added fat, and very little… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“By now, cooking has become so thickly crusted with pretension and gadgetry and marketing hype that the effort to reduce it to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one… — 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
My work has gotten more political over time, but once you start exploring food, you find you're up against economics and politics… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Yet as a general rule it's a whole lot easier to slap a health claim on a box of sugary cereal than… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“So what exactly would an ecological detective set loose in an American supermarket discover, were he to trace the items in his… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I said before that McDonald's serves a kind of comfort food, but after a few bites I'm more inclined to think they're… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The growth of the American food industry will always bump up against this troublesome biological fact: Try as we might, each of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is… — 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
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
We do not subsidize organic food. We subsidize these four crops - five altogether, but one is cotton - and these are… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“...Only the big food manufacturers have the wherewithal to secure FDA-approved health claims for their products and then trumpet them to the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Is there any more feudal, soul eradiating experience than standing before the little window on a microwave oven watching the carousel slowly… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“USDA regulations spell out precisely what sort of facility and system is permissible, but they don’t set thresholds for food-borne pathogens. (That… — 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
My whole interest in food grew from my interest in gardens and the question of how we engage with the natural world.… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
One of the powerful things about the food issue is that people feel empowered by it. There are so many areas of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
For many of us, eating has surprisingly little to do with hunger. We eat out of boredom, for entertainment, to comfort or… — 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
“. . . .how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world--and what is… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Eating is an agricultural act," Wendell Berry famously wrote, by which he meant that we are not just passive consumers of food… — 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
“...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 Image
“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 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)
