Michael Pollan Quotes

• The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

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• Every major food company now has an organic division. There’s more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

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• High-quality food is better for your health.

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• People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

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• You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.

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• Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I’m writing about.

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• 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.

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• Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.

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• This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

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• 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.

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• The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn’t have. It’s very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that’s going wrong in society.

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• The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.

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• The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

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• The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it’s not the other way around.

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• The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

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• Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.

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• Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.

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• 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.

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• My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.

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• My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

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Birth:	6th February, 1955
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist, Professor

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