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People Quotes by Michael Pollan
- People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.
- Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's made the fast…
- People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain.
- For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of…
- The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun…
- 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…
- What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to…
- This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take…
- Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi that have been…
- For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle