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
Animals die even if you eat vegetables. That is the nature of farming. There is a certain sacrifice involved. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
You may not think you eat a lot of corn and soybeans, but you do: 75 percent of the vegetable oils in… — 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
I think using waste oils as fuel makes sense. We do waste a huge amount of vegetable oil in this country and… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato,… — 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
How my son discovered vegetables was from growing them in the garden. — 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
It's more important that you eat vegetables, even if they are conventional -- I'm talking about for your health -- then it… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper… — 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
