The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I like to be able to open a can of stock and I like to talk about politics, or the movies, at… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
California's Proposition 37, which would require that genetically modified (G.M.) foods carry a label, has the potential to do just that -… — 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
If you're a politician it's very useful to say that we can have economic growth and at the same time green the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, government policy helped get the fast food outlets into the city. Very well-intentioned small business administration loans to encourage minority… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Much more has to be done to democratize the food movement. One of the reasons that healthy food is more expensive than… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Even connoisseurship can have politics, Slow Food wagers, since an eater in closer touch with his senses will find less pleasure in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
One of the problems is that the US government supports unhealthy food and does very little to support healthy food. I mean,… — 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 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
“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
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