If you're eating grassland meat, your carbon footprint is light and possibly even negative. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Everything we eat begins with a plant turning solar energy into carbohydrates. Everything. Whether we're eating meat or eating vegetables, it all… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Uncle Jeff insisted that I also take a tray of unseasoned barbecue, so I could see for myself that what's going on… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Any kind of food you eat is going to have an impact on the world. If you switch to tofu and get… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
To the extent we push meat a little bit to the side and move vegetables to the center of our diet, we're… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those… — 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
Not that I'm against meat eating. But I think we're eating too much. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I agree insofar as we eat too much meat. We're eating about 200 pounds per person per year. That's about 9 ounces… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious… — 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
