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• Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest.

  Michael Pollan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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

  Land, People, Social

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.98, Penguin

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• American farmers produced 600 more calories per person per day in 2000 than they did in 1980. But some calories got cheaper than others: Since 1980, the price of sweeteners and added fats (most of them derived, respectively, from subsidized corn and subsidized soybeans), dropped 20 percent, while the price of fresh fruits and vegetables increased by 40 percent.

  Michael Pollan

  Vegetables, Soybeans, Corn

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.122, Penguin

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• 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

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• 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

  Food, Animal, Community

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.156, Penguin

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• 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

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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• People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

  Michael Pollan

  Issues, People, Environmental

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• Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

  Michael Pollan

  Pests, Disease, Way

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.115, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world.

  Michael Pollan

  Grace, Needs, World

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.206, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.

  Michael Pollan

  Happy Life, Thinking, Unhappy

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.39, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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

  Eggs, Agriculture, Needs

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Any food product that feels compelled to tell you it’s natural
  in all likelihood is not.

  Michael Pollan

  Natural, Feels, Compelled

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• While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of ability than priority. p.187

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Phones, Two

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• I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

  Michael Pollan

  Relationship, Mean, World

  "Michael Pollan's 'Botany of Desire'". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. June 28, 2001.

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• Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit these carbon atoms for the molecules necessary to support life-the carbohydrates, amino acids, proteins, and lipids-is by means of photosynthesis. Using sunlight as a catalyst the green cells of plants combine carbon atoms taken from the air with water and elements drawn from the soil to form the simple organic compounds that stand at the base of every food chain. It is more than a figure of speech to say that plants create life out of thin air.

  Michael Pollan

  Taken, Mean, Simple

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Interesting, Want

  "In Defense of Food: Author, Journalist Michael Pollan on Nutrition, Food Science and the American Diet". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 13, 2008.

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• 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

  Struggle, Animal, Rights

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• Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.

  Michael Pollan

  Writing, Gmos, Done

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

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• The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.

  Michael Pollan

  Doe, Recognition, Mystery

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.192, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing

  Michael Pollan

  Hunting, People, Animal Rights

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.182, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

  Michael Pollan

  Past, Garden, Century

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

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• Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Agriculture, Division

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• 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

  Discovery, Answers, Facts

  Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.7, Penguin

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• If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry.

  Michael Pollan

  Apples, Hungry, Enough

  Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, Penguin

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• The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.

  Michael Pollan

  Environment, Passing, Passings

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