Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead. Michael Pollan More Quotes by Michael Pollan More Quotes From Michael Pollan He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration. Michael Pollan cake chocolate healing The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion dollars a year - used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left us where we now find ourselves: relying on science and journalism and government and marketing to help us decide what to eat. Michael Pollan government two years Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing. Michael Pollan irony writing 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 want interesting thinking A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. Michael Pollan lawns environment grass It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car. Michael Pollan car fitness motivational 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 enough people years Shake the hand that feeds you. Michael Pollan healthy-eating food hands The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. Michael Pollan garden nature food 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 motivational inspirational country 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 soybeans corn vegetables I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on health care in this country. 75% of that money goes to treat chronic diseases, preventable chronic diseases, most of those are linked to diet. Michael Pollan country years thinking 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 agriculture eggs needs Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature. Michael Pollan ingredients growing states 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 answers discovery facts 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 rights animal Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before. Michael Pollan agriculture division food Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle. Michael Pollan periphery middle shops 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 gmos done writing 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 intelligent compassion dog
