We now eat at the end of a very long and opaque food chain. Food comes to us ready-made in packages that… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Depending on how we spend them, our food dollars can either go to support a food industry devoted to quantity and convenience… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook our food, we're going to have a huge, industrialized,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner; cheapness… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The fact that the nutritional quality of a given food (and of that food's food) can vary not just in degree but… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only… — 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
“Cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
At either end of any food chain you find a biological system-a patch of soil, a human body-and the health of one… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologies come into conflict with nature's ways of doing things,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by… — 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
“So much about life in a global economy feels as though it has passed beyond the individual’s control—what happens to our jobs,… — 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
I probably spend more on food than a lot of people, and I feel good about the whole food chain I'm supporting… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“What is most troubling, and sad, about industrial eating is how thoroughly it obscures all these relationships and connections. To go from… — 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
