All Michael Pollan Quotes
- American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others: Since… Added
- Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent… Call
- Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of your milk. Breakfast
- A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius. Beef
- Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's made the fast… Agriculture
- People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain. Behave
- Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature. Eat
- I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the… Answer
- A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be… Activist
- Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of… Been
- Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so… Calories
- Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure… Accurately
- For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories… Animal
- I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a… Articles
- Avoid foods you see advertised on television. Advertised
- Stop eating before you're full. Eating
- Better to pay the grocer than the doctor. Better
- Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others Apt
- The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution. Corn
- To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford… Afford