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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 Picture Quote #1

Food consists not just in piles of chemicals; it also comprises a set of social and ecological relationships, reaching back to the land and outward to other people Picture Quote #1

The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats; fats against carbs Picture Quote #1

Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men Picture Quote #1

We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow people to eat well cheaply. For example making three or four meals from a chicken, rather than buying chicken breasts Picture Quote #1

The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains as well as our fields so that when some of them fail, we can still eat Picture Quote #1

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

You want to say the thing that will drive everybody in the direction you want to go. But as a writer you have a pact with your readers that you’ll be really straight with them at all times Picture Quote #1

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

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive Picture Quote #1

... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds Picture Quote #1

It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins Picture Quote #1

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture Picture Quote #1

What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick! Picture Quote #1

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn’t necessarily expect to witness Picture Quote #1

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Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn’t disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you’d be willing to share Picture Quote #1

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris Picture Quote #1

For a product to carry a health claim on its package, it must first have a package, so right off the bat it’s more likely to be processed rather than a whole food Picture Quote #1

For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love? Picture Quote #1

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Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us Picture Quote #1

Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community Picture Quote #1

People don’t eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain Picture Quote #1

Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature Picture Quote #1

I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook Picture Quote #1

Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others Picture Quote #1

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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) Food consists not just in piles of chemicals; it also comprises a set of social and ecological relationships, reaching back to the land and outward to other people (Michael Pollan Quotes) The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats; fats against carbs (Michael Pollan Quotes) Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men (Michael Pollan Quotes) We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow people to eat well cheaply. For example making three or four meals from a chicken, rather than buying chicken breasts (Michael Pollan Quotes) The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains as well as our fields so that when some of them fail, we can still eat (Michael Pollan Quotes) Not that I’m against meat eating. But I think we’re eating too much (Michael Pollan Quotes) You want to say the thing that will drive everybody in the direction you want to go. But as a writer you have a pact with your readers that you’ll be really straight with them at all times (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) A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals (Michael Pollan Quotes) 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 (Michael Pollan Quotes) 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 Quotes) The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive (Michael Pollan Quotes) ... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds (Michael Pollan Quotes) It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins (Michael Pollan Quotes) The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture (Michael Pollan Quotes) What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick! (Michael Pollan Quotes) Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn’t necessarily expect to witness (Michael Pollan Quotes) Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts (Michael Pollan Quotes) 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 Quotes) Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn’t disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you’d be willing to share (Michael Pollan Quotes) Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris (Michael Pollan Quotes) For a product to carry a health claim on its package, it must first have a package, so right off the bat it’s more likely to be processed rather than a whole food (Michael Pollan Quotes) For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love? (Michael Pollan Quotes) Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us (Michael Pollan Quotes) Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community (Michael Pollan Quotes) People don’t eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain (Michael Pollan Quotes) Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature (Michael Pollan Quotes) I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook (Michael Pollan Quotes) Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others (Michael Pollan Quotes)

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