If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't. Michael Pollan More Quotes by Michael Pollan More Quotes From Michael Pollan Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce. Michael Pollan thirds ingredients products 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 animal-rights people Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose. Michael Pollan design miracle beautiful High-quality food is better for your health. Michael Pollan longevity quality diets [Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa. Michael Pollan accountability government vices Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom. Michael Pollan fancy mom culture This for many people is what is 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. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture. Michael Pollan hunting views animal 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 conformity diversity garden The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies. Michael Pollan subsidies agriculture poverty I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not Michael Pollan objectivity perfect thinking 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 moments ordinary forget 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 Michael Pollan strong claims want Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our identity. As long as humans have been taking meals together, eating has been as much about culture as it has been about biology. Michael Pollan community together long What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick! Michael Pollan sick civilization people Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation. Michael Pollan income citizens america Any food product that feels compelled to tell you it’s natural Michael Pollan compelled natural feels But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you. Michael Pollan challenges It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins. Michael Pollan century garden past My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it. Michael Pollan more-money motivated good-food People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue. Michael Pollan environmental issues people
