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Michael Pollan quotes

American Educator February 6, 1955

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Sometimes the large scale organic farmer looks like someone trying to practice industrial agriculture with one hand tied behind his back. Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began..."
Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum. Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "People who smoked cannabis were Other, and the cannabis they..."
...People who smoked cannabis were Other, and the cannabis they smoked threatened to let their Otherness loose in the land. Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "There is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in..."
There is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us. Michael Pollan
Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest. Michael Pollan
Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat. Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like..."
When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too. Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of..."
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "So that's us: processed corn, walking."
So that's us: processed corn, walking. Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be..."
You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned. Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place."
Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place. Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay..."
Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle. Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you."
Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you. Michael Pollan
You are what you eat is a truism hard to argue with, and yet it is, as a visit to a feedlot suggests, incomplete, for you are what what you eat eats, too. And what we are, or have become, is not just meat but number 2 corn and oil. Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan quote: "The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1..."
The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants. Michael Pollan

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