Michael Pollan Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those in the same tissues of Mexicans report that it is now we in the North who are the true people of corn.... Compared to us, Mexicans today consume a far more varied carbon diet: the animals they eat still eat grass (until recently, Mexicans regarded feeding corn to livestock as a sacrilege); much of their protein comes from legumes; and they still sweeten their beverages with cane sugar. So that's us: processed corn, walking.

  Michael Pollan

  Lying, Animal, Hair

• Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of turkeys are the Broad-Breasted Whites.

  Michael Pollan

  Yield, Turkeys, America

• The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.

  Michael Pollan

  Lines, Today, Eating

• For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.

  Michael Pollan

  Powerful, Mean, World

  Michael Pollan (2001). “The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World”, p.20, Random House

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