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Corn Quotes by Michael Pollan
- Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
- Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup
- 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…
- 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…
- The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.
- In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all…
- So that's us: processed corn, walking.
- But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those…
- You may not think you eat a lot of corn and soybeans, but you do: 75 percent of the vegetable oils in your diet come…
- 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,…
- Organic Oreos are not a health food. When Coca-Cola begins selling organic Coke, as it surely will, the company will have struck a blow for…
- In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half…
More Corn Quotes
- Today's smartest advertising style is tomorrow's corn. — William Bernbach
- The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside… — Roberto Benigni
- Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them… — Mark Bittman
- All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. — Lewis Black
- The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It's unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the… — Lewis Black
- A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. — Anne Bronte
- From cheesecake on a stick to meat skewers to deep-fried bananas on a stick - there are no plates anymore. In Los… — Steve Carell
- Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods. — Gilbert K. Chesterton