Michael Pollan Quotes

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• Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.
• Imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where…
• We're supposed to show people how the world is, to give them the tools they need to make good decisions as citizens or consumers. Depending…
• Don't eat any foods you've ever seen advertised on television.
• Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.
• Studies show that organically grown crops produce more of the things (ascorbic acid, lycopenes, resveratrol, flavonols in general, etc) that our bodies need and also…
• ...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that…
• A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served…
• In Joel's view, that reformation begins with people going o the trouble and expense of buying directly from farmers they know - "relationship marketing," as…
• People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human…
• The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
• Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness…
• The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.
• Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation.
• Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we…
• Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what…
• People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the…
• There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.
• Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that restored the land.…
• In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not eaten by humans…

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