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Michael Pollan quotes about culture

American Educator February 6, 1955

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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 scientific subject but an ideology. Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's still exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather--all pervasive and so virtually impossible... Michael Pollan
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture. Michael Pollan
There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with. Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the..."
Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds. Michael Pollan
More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most. Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for..."
Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom. Michael Pollan
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts. Michael Pollan

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