Michael Pollan Quotes

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• When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too. Chickens
• Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type… Alone
• Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread. Amplified
• Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle. Middle
• Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead. Bread
• We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem. Inspirational
• ...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation. Forget
• That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation and confusion. Or… Advising
• But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you. Challenge
• we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to… All
• Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris. Denial
• For a product to carry a health claim on its package, it must first have a package, so right off the bat it's more likely… Bat
• More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even… Ands
• The first thing to understand about nutritionism is that it is not the same thing as nutrition. As the "-ism" suggests, it is not a… All
• Lawns are a form of television Form
• But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees… Been
• That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would… Americans
• Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place. Bad
• Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum. Began
• The soybean itself is a notably inauspicious staple food; it contains a whole assortment of "antinutrients" - compounds that actually block the body's absorption of… Absorption

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