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From Quotes by Michael Pollan
- You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.
- 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…
- Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit…
- Don't get your fuel from the same place your car does
- There's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn…
- Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.
- One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.
- 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…
- Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.
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