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
“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
The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the… — 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 shared meal is no small thing. It is a foundation of family life, the place where our children learn the art… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's… — 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
“It is very much in the interest of the food industry to exacerbate our anxieties about what to eat, the better to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Our society assigns us a tiny number of roles: We're producers of one thing at work, consumers of a great many things… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The two things are synergistic, the health care crisis and the food crisis. Right now, to a large extent, the food industry's… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Even if you don't think you can cook well, you can cook better than the food industry. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
You can make real food in 20, 30 minutes, but we've convinced ourselves that it is a rocket science. It's a shame.… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Yet the organic label itself—like every other such label in the supermarket—is really just an imperfect substitute for direct observation of how… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The food industry burns nearly a fifth of all the petroleum consumed in the United States (about as much as automobiles do).… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand. — 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
“Supermarkets in Denmark have experimented with adding a second bar code to packages of meat that when scanned at a kiosk in… — 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
