Michael Pollan Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• High-quality food is better for your health.

  Michael Pollan

  Quality, Longevity, Diets

• Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.

  Michael Pollan

  Quality, Poor, Wealthy

• There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig - an animal easily as intelligent as a dog - that becomes the Christmas ham.

  Michael Pollan

  Dog, Intelligent, Compassion

  "An Animal's Place" by Michael Pollan, www.nytimes.com. November 10, 2002.

• The first thing to understand about nutritionism is that it is not the same thing as nutrition. As the "-ism" suggests, it is not a scientific subject but an ideology. Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's still exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather--all pervasive and so virtually impossible to escape. Still, we can try.

  Michael Pollan

  Weather, Trying, Quality

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.28, Penguin

• A French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the ‘pieds de Dieu’—the feet of god. Just to be clear: foot odor of a particularly exalted quality, but still—foot odor.

  Michael Pollan

  Feet, Quality, Odor

  Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.222, Penguin

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