In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“The problem is that once science has reduced a complex phenomenon to a couple of variables, however important they may be, the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“researchers found that a dollar could buy 1,200 calories of potato chips and cookies; spent on a whole food like carrots, the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
People have been dealing with health long before there was science, certainly before nutrition science. We're constantly reading about scientific studies that… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Since nutrients, as compared with foods, are invisible and therefore slightly mysterious, it falls to the scientists (and to the journalists through… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“...Only the big food manufacturers have the wherewithal to secure FDA-approved health claims for their products and then trumpet them to the… — 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
“Nutrition science has usually put more of its energies into the idea that the problems it studies are the result of too… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“A charge often levied against organic agriculture is that it is more philosophy than science. There's some truth to this indictment, if… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
One of the skills of a journalist, though, is to find people who can teach him what he needs to know. So… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Nutrition science is where surgery was in about 1650, you know, really interesting and promising, but would you want to have them… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I have no scientific training at all. I was an English major in school. Everything I learned about science I've learned as… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power… — 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
![“But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those in the same tissues of Mexicans report that it is now we in the North who are the true people of corn.... Compared to us, Mexicans today consume a far more…” quote by Michael Pollan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0c7/michael-pollan-408_animal_but-carbon-13-the-carbon-from-corn-doesn_1740195.jpg)
