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Michael Pollan quotes

American Educator February 6, 1955

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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
He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration. Michael Pollan
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
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
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: "I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness,..."
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not. Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. 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
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
Michael Pollan quote: "Rule No. 41. Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or..."
Rule No. 41. Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks. 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

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