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Michael Pollan quotes about food

American Educator February 6, 1955

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As long as one egg looks pretty much like another, all the chickens like chicken, and beef beef, the substitution of quantity for quality will go unnoticed by most consumers, but it is becoming increasingly apparent to anyone with an electron microscope or a mass spectrometer that, truly, this is not the same food. Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize..."
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Michael Pollan
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
Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation. Michael Pollan
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
Michael Pollan quote: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Michael Pollan
The soybean itself is a notably inauspicious staple food; it contains a whole assortment of "antinutrients" - compounds that actually block the body's absorption of vitamins and minerals, interfere with the hormonal system, and prevent the body from breaking down the proteins of the soy itself. Michael Pollan
When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest - the added sugars and fats in processed foods. Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for..."
Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food, Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very..."
Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand. Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "Every major food company now has an organic division. There's..."
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before. Michael Pollan

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