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title: "3 Food Alive Quotes by 3 authors"
description: "Browse 3 Food Alive quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Food Alive sayings and thoughts."
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> [When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-pollan/when-you-re-cooking-with-food-as-alive-as-this-these-gorgeous-and/)

[Michael Pollan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-pollan/)

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> [If the food were alive, would it think we were giants?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/if-the-food-were-alive-would-it-think-we-were-giants/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [People don't even understand that every bit of our food was once alive. We take another creature, plant, animal, microorganism, tear it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-suzuki/people-don-t-even-understand-that-every-bit-of-our-food-was-once/)

[David Suzuki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-suzuki/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f4/david-suzuki-1744_alive_people-don-t-even-understand-that-every_2491960.jpg)

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