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“Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Wall #Animal #Long
“I'm not talking about having to consult Julia Child before you can take a pot off the rack. I think that's something we can all do more and do better.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Children #Thinking #Talking
“A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Environment #Lawns
“One of the powerful things about the food issue is that people feel empowered by it. There are so many areas of our life where we feel powerless to change things, but your eating issues are really primal. You decide every day what you're going to put in your body and what you refuse to put in your body. That's politics at its most basic.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Powerful #Issues #People
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Order #Healthy #Confusing
“One of the most irresponsible things we can do is eat in ignorance, without any awareness of what our eating is doing to the world or to other species.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Ignorance #World #Eating
“Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn't recognize as food.. stay away from these”
-- Michael Pollan

#Health #Grandmother #Great Men
“Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of what it is, it's enormously satisfying.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Appreciation #Consciousness #Eating
“In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not eaten by humans as food, however.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Years #People #Enough
“I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Writing #Trying #Firsts
“If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Plant #Made
“I try very hard to tell stories and not lecture. I try to approach things as an amateur and not an expert, so that when I'm doing something, I'm starting out in a place a lot like where my readers start out - which is to say, naÃ¯ve.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Trying #Experts #Stories
“It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Fitness #Car #Window
“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

#Important #Way #Ingredients
“He showed the words â€œchocolate cakeâ€ to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. â€œGuiltâ€ was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: â€œcelebration.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Healing #Cake #Chocolate
“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

#Important #Levels #Making Changes
“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

#Real #Cost #Subsidies
“People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Agriculture #Profound #People
“Better to pay the grocer than the doctor.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Doctors #Pay #Grocers
“It's very important to get out, to do reporting. It's also really interesting. I come at it as a journalist, and I think that's helped me, and I come at it as someone who sees nature wherever he looks, and that helps.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Thinking #Interesting #Important
“Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Important #Corporations #Cooks
“One of the skills of a journalist, though, is to find people who can teach him what he needs to know. So instead of taking courses, I've been very lucky in that I found teachers - scientists, especially - who were willing to teach me what I needed to know, whether it was about genetically modified crops or how photosynthesis works, and so on. I just find my teachers and don't have to pay for my education.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Teacher #Skills #People
“For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Ordinary #Forget #Moments
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Food #Too Much #Healthy Eating
“Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Middle #Periphery #Shops
“There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Long #Special #Occasions
“We could have a greener economy, even a greener consumer economy by changing the rules - whether it's by taxing carbon or trading carbon, I'm not sure what - but in the end there's just a fundamental problem with the sheer amount we're consuming.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Fundamentals #Problem #Economy
“[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Government #Accountability #Regulation
“I still think we have a long way to go on rebuilding a culture of cooking. Everyday simple cooking.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Simple #Thinking #Long
“When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.”
-- Michael Pollan

#Taste #Chickens

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