22 Quotes By Michael Pollan


High-quality food is better for your health.
Michael Pollan on diet

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.
Michael Pollan on environmental

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.
Michael Pollan on food

My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.
Michael Pollan on food

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.
Michael Pollan on food

High-quality food is better for your health.
Michael Pollan on food

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 carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.
Michael Pollan on food

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.
Michael Pollan on food

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 we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.
Michael Pollan on food

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.
Michael Pollan on food

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.
Michael Pollan on food

Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.
Michael Pollan on food

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
Michael Pollan on funny

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
Michael Pollan on gardening

High-quality food is better for your health.
Michael Pollan on health

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 are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.
Michael Pollan on history

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
Michael Pollan on leadership

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
Michael Pollan on nature

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics.
Michael Pollan on politics

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.
Michael Pollan on relationship