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Thinking Quotes by Michael Pollan
- I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not
- The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.
- If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does cheese evoke? Damp…
- The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, spending on health care has soared? In 1960…
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