Michael Pollan Quotes

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• The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology…
• The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion…
• If you’re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is…
• Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity,…
• Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.
• Shake the hand that feeds you.
• When you're cooking with food as alive as this -- these gorgeous and semigorgeous fruits and leaves and flesh -- you're in no danger of…
• Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.
• Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food,
• What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!
• ...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more…
• Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent…
• A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me…
• Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.
• The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or…
• Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
• Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of…
• If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.
• The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc.,…
• Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals…

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