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Michael Pollan Quotes

The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion dollars a year - used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left us where we now find ourselves: relying on science and journalism and government and marketing to help us decide what to eat Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Why don’t we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food Picture Quote #1

There are things we know and things we don’t know about food. But there are certain basic things we do know, and that’s what I’ve tried to build these rules on Picture Quote #1

There’s no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest Picture Quote #1

It’s been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn’t turned more attention to the subject of food Picture Quote #1

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Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere. And if it isn’t paid at the cash register, it’s charged to the environment or to the public purse in the form of subsidies. And it’s charged to your health Picture Quote #1

To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup Picture Quote #1

Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It’s the single most important thing you can do for your health Picture Quote #1

It’s really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will use cooking for you Picture Quote #1

Cooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors, and to guarantee you’re eating real food rather than edible foodlike substances, with their unhealthy oils, high-fructose corn syrup, and surfeit of salt Picture Quote #1

Not that I’m against meat eating. But I think we’re eating too much Picture Quote #1

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In the end I’m still a writer. I’m still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That’s where I have to draw the line Picture Quote #1

People say they don’t have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet Picture Quote #1

Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food, Picture Quote #1

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something Picture Quote #1

Students are very engaged by the issues, and it’s not surprising because food choices are one of the few powers a child has Picture Quote #1

The two things are synergistic, the health care crisis and the food crisis. Right now, to a large extent, the food industry’s biggest product is patients for the health care industry and we have to break that Picture Quote #1

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If you’re going to change the food system, there is a lot that you, the consumer, can do on your own; but in the end, it will be very important to make changes at the national level Picture Quote #1

Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food Picture Quote #1

Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure become a process of converting fossil fuels into food Picture Quote #1

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda Picture Quote #1

In a way, the more techniques you apply, the less important the ingredients are. It shouldn’t be that way, but you can get away with it. But if you’re highlighting this astounding artichoke, it’s got to be an astounding artichoke Picture Quote #1

For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force Picture Quote #1

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Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food Picture Quote #1

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism Picture Quote #1

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue Picture Quote #1

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand Picture Quote #1

The congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around Picture Quote #1

Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north Picture Quote #1

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The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion dollars a year - used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left us where we now find ourselves: relying on science and journalism and government and marketing to help us decide what to eat (Michael Pollan Quotes) 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 Quotes) Why don’t we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food. (Michael Pollan Quotes) There are things we know and things we don’t know about food. But there are certain basic things we do know, and that’s what I’ve tried to build these rules on. (Michael Pollan Quotes) There’s no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest. (Michael Pollan Quotes) It’s been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn’t turned more attention to the subject of food. (Michael Pollan Quotes) Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere. And if it isn’t paid at the cash register, it’s charged to the environment or to the public purse in the form of subsidies. And it’s charged to your health. (Michael Pollan Quotes) To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft drink in the supermarket is to have some corn with your corn. Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket have been sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup. (Michael Pollan Quotes) Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It’s the single most important thing you can do for your health. (Michael Pollan Quotes) It’s really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will use cooking for you. (Michael Pollan Quotes) Cooking for yourself is the only sure way to take back control of your diet from the food scientists and food processors, and to guarantee you’re eating real food rather than edible foodlike substances, with their unhealthy oils, high-fructose corn syrup, and surfeit of salt. (Michael Pollan Quotes) Not that I’m against meat eating. But I think we’re eating too much. (Michael Pollan Quotes) In the end I’m still a writer. I’m still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That’s where I have to draw the line. (Michael Pollan Quotes) People say they don’t have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet. (Michael Pollan Quotes) Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food, (Michael Pollan Quotes) Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something. (Michael Pollan Quotes) Students are very engaged by the issues, and it’s not surprising because food choices are one of the few powers a child has. (Michael Pollan Quotes) The two things are synergistic, the health care crisis and the food crisis. Right now, to a large extent, the food industry’s biggest product is patients for the health care industry and we have to break that. (Michael Pollan Quotes) If you’re going to change the food system, there is a lot that you, the consumer, can do on your own; but in the end, it will be very important to make changes at the national level. (Michael Pollan Quotes) Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food. (Michael Pollan Quotes) Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure become a process of converting fossil fuels into food. (Michael Pollan Quotes) In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda. (Michael Pollan Quotes) In a way, the more techniques you apply, the less important the ingredients are. It shouldn’t be that way, but you can get away with it. But if you’re highlighting this astounding artichoke, it’s got to be an astounding artichoke. (Michael Pollan Quotes) For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force. (Michael Pollan Quotes) Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food (Michael Pollan Quotes) The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism (Michael Pollan Quotes) People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue (Michael Pollan Quotes) Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand (Michael Pollan Quotes) The congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around (Michael Pollan Quotes) Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north (Michael Pollan Quotes)

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