Michael Pollan quotes - page 2

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness. (Michael Pollan)
Nutrition science is where surgery was in about 1650, you know, really interesting and promising, but would you want to have them operate on you yet? I don't think so. View quote
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Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north. View quote
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...the microwave is an individualistic serial machine – it can only do one at a time so if you've got four people eating four different entrees, each has to be individually heated. So our microwave dinner, which was supposed to save us so much time, took about an hour to get to the table. View quote
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Home cooking is good for you, and I eat out less. But that's the least of it. What has surprised me is how stimulating it is. How satisfying. You learn a lot about plants and animals. You begin to recognise your place in the world. View quote
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Don't eat anything incapable of rotting. View quote
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Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom. View quote
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Of course it's also a lot easier to slap a health claim on a box of sugary cereal than on a potato or carrot, with the perverse result that the most healthful foods in the supermarket sit there quietly in the produce section, silent as stroke victims, while a few aisles over, the Cocoa Puffs and Lucky Charms are screaming about their newfound whole-grain goodness. View quote
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The industrial animal factory offers a nightmarish glimpse of what capitalism is capable of in the absence of any moral or regulatory constraint whatsoever. View quote
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There are a lot more roses and tulips around today, in a lot more places, then there were before people took an interest in them. For a flower the path to world domination passes through humanity's ever-shifting ideals of beauty. View quote
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Sometimes the cause of civilization is best served by a hard stare into the soul of its opposite. (Michael Pollan)
You are what what you eat eats. View quote
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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. View quote
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Shake the hand that feeds you. View quote
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If you're concerned about your health, you should probably avoid products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a strong indication it's not really food, and food is what you want to eat. View quote
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Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about. View quote
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You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned. View quote
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Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about. View quote
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My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me. View quote
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I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification. View quote
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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. (Michael Pollan)
I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist. View quote
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Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something. View quote
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The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. View quote
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At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind. View quote
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