People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do. Michael Pollan More Quotes by Michael Pollan More Quotes From Michael Pollan The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics. Michael Pollan partyagreementtwo It's more important that you eat vegetables, even if they are conventional -- I'm talking about for your health -- then it is until you wait until you can afford organic, or you can find organic. Michael Pollan vegetableswaitingtalking The real food is not being advertised. Michael Pollan real-foodreal If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry. Michael Pollan hungryapplesenough 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 odorqualityfeet Eat mostly plants, especially leaves. Michael Pollan plant What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism—its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure. Michael Pollan unionscampaignstests If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does cheese evoke? Damp dark cellars, molds, mildews and mushrooms galore, dirty laundry and high school locker rooms, digestive processes and visceral fermentations, he-goats which do not remind of Chanel ... In sum, cheese reminds of dubious, even unsavory places, both in nature and in our own organisms. And yet we love it. Michael Pollan darkdirtyschool Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly. Michael Pollan whitecloudsbird I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification. Michael Pollan relationshipmeanworld The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms. Michael Pollan issuespoliticalleadership California’s Proposition 37, which would require that genetically modified (G.M.) foods carry a label, has the potential to do just that - to change the politics of food not just in California but nationally too. Michael Pollan genetically-modifiedcalifornialabels There's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing. Michael Pollan offendingletting-gopeople 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 graceworldneeds Eating is a political act. Michael Pollan ecopoliticaleating ...think of agriculture as something the grasses did to people to conquer the trees. Michael Pollan agriculturepeoplethinking More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most. Michael Pollan diversitywhat-mattersmean 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 qualityweathertrying Lawns are a form of television Michael Pollan lawnsformtelevision Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum. Michael Pollan eatinghumanitysun
