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A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.
— Michael Pollan
Do all your eating at a table.
— Michael Pollan
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
— Michael Pollan
People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain.
— Michael Pollan
Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
— Michael Pollan
It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.
— Michael Pollan
What memoir of childhood doesn't at some point turn on the scent of a sweet pea or a freshly cut lawn or a boxwood hedge, to leap the fence of years?
— Michael Pollan
A mouse is the size of a mouse for a good reason, and a mouse that was the size of an elephant wouldn't do very well.
— Michael Pollan
Improving the soil improved the man.
— Michael Pollan
There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn.
— Michael Pollan
My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.
— Michael Pollan
Writing is about music ... finding the music of a sentence ...
— Michael Pollan
Madison, Deborah. Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's Farmer's Markets (New York: Broadway Books, 2002). Nabhan,
— Michael Pollan
Except for the salt and a handful of synthetic food additives, every edible item in the supermarket is a link in a food chain.
— Michael Pollan
Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not conducive to good health.
— Michael Pollan
We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.
— Michael Pollan
Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.
— Michael Pollan
If you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't be eating it.
— Michael Pollan
Umami ... is the quasi-secret heart and soul of almost every braise, stew, and soup.
— Michael Pollan
We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.
— Michael Pollan
My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.
— Michael Pollan
The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.
— Michael Pollan
Sometimes the large scale organic farmer looks like someone trying to practice industrial agriculture with one hand tied behind his back.
— Michael Pollan
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
— Michael Pollan
At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.
— Michael Pollan
You can't regulate integrity
— Michael Pollan
The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.
— Michael Pollan
But don't take the silence of the yams as a sign that they have nothing valuable to say about health.
— Michael Pollan
Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others
— Michael Pollan
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 as food, however.
— Michael Pollan
This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.
— Michael Pollan
The grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief.
— Michael Pollan
Avoid foods you see advertised on television.
— Michael Pollan
Don't ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap.
— Michael Pollan
I don't like writing as an expert. I like writing as an amateur. I like writing as an idiot. It's much more fun to start in ignorance.
— Michael Pollan
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
— Michael Pollan
For as you go on, you'll be getting more calories, but not necessarily more pleasure.
— Michael Pollan
If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.
— Michael Pollan
Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.
— Michael Pollan
The other thing that soy contributes to, of course, is hydrogenated oil. This is the main oil. This is the fast-food oil.
— Michael Pollan
You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist.
— Michael Pollan
The real food is not being advertised
— Michael Pollan
In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to draw the line.
— Michael Pollan
Rule No. 41. Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.
— Michael Pollan
Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.
— Michael Pollan
Corporations cook very differently from how people do.
— Michael Pollan
The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship.
— Michael Pollan
Eating industrial meat takes an almost heroic act of not knowing or,
— Michael Pollan
The bread was so powerfully aromatic that, had I been alone, I would have been tempted to push my face into it.
— Michael Pollan
Planted, a single corn seed yielded more than 150 fat kernels, often as many as 300, while the return on a seed of wheat was something less than 50:1
— Michael Pollan
I like to be able to open a can of stock and I like to talk about politics, or the movies, at the dinner table sometimes instead of food.
— Michael Pollan
As I've heard some bakers say, baking takes a lot of time, but for the most part it's not YOUR time.
— Michael Pollan
there are now millions of people who spend more time watching food being cooked on television than they spend actually cooking it themselves.
— Michael Pollan
Part of the appeal of hamburgers and nuggets is that their boneless abstractions allow us to forget we're eating animals.
— Michael Pollan
Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.
— Michael Pollan
Memory is the enemy of wonder
— Michael Pollan
People who smoked cannabis were Other, and the cannabis they smoked threatened to let their Otherness loose in the land.
— Michael Pollan
I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.
— Michael Pollan
Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.
— Michael Pollan
S policy: "no snacks, no seconds, no sweets - except on days that begin with the letter S.
— Michael Pollan
Polyface is proof that people can sometimes do more for the health of a place by cultivating it rather than by leaving it alone.
— Michael Pollan
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
— Michael Pollan
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.
— Michael Pollan
What should we have for dinner?
— Michael Pollan
The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.
— Michael Pollan
For as long as the carnival of capitalism lasts, the rules of logic are repealed ...
— Michael Pollan
Don't eat breakfast cereals that change the color of your milk.
— Michael Pollan
For great many species today, "fitness" means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.
— Michael Pollan
People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.
— Michael Pollan
Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating.
— Michael Pollan
(Americans spend less time cooking than people in any other nation, but the general downward trend is global.)
— Michael Pollan
It is too late in the day-there are simply too many of us now-to follow Thoreau into the woods, to look to nature to somehow cure or undo culture.
— Michael Pollan
As fire's presence in our everyday lives has diminished, the social magnetism of the cook fire seems, if anything, to have only grown more powerful.
— Michael Pollan
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.
— Michael Pollan
Forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.
— Michael Pollan
Food is a costly antidepressant.
— Michael Pollan
Don't eat any foods you've ever seen advertised on television.
— Michael Pollan
Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men.
— Michael Pollan
The banquet is in the first bite.
— Michael Pollan
Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.
— Michael Pollan
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[Smil] estimates that two of every five humans on Earth today would not be alive if not for Fritz Haber's invention of the Haber-Bosch process.
— Michael Pollan
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
— Michael Pollan
