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Way Quotes by Michael Pollan
- The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.
- 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…
- Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
- 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…
- When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery…
- ... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body 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…
- Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals…
- 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…
- Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.
- 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…
- The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.
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