...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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
There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There's a lot of research that suggests that organic yields are close or superior to conventional yields depending on factors like climate.… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a… — 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
I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not… — 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
