When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too. Michael Pollan More Quotes by Michael Pollan More Quotes From Michael Pollan Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place. Michael Pollan eating knows way 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 community animal food ...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account for three quarters of the $2 trillion plus we spend each year on health care in this country) than preventing them. Michael Pollan three country years For though we may be the Earth's gardeners, we are also its weeds. And we won't get anywhere until we come to terms with this crucial ambiguity about our role - that we are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem. Michael Pollan weed roles earth You may not think you eat a lot of corn and soybeans, but you do: 75 percent of the vegetable oils in your diet come from soy (representing 20 percent of your daily calories) and more than half of the sweeteners you consume come from corn (representing around 10 perecent of daily calories). Michael Pollan oil vegetables thinking We could have a greener economy, even a greener consumer economy by changing the rules - whether it's by taxing carbon or trading carbon, I'm not sure what - but in the end there's just a fundamental problem with the sheer amount we're consuming. Michael Pollan economy problem fundamentals There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest. Michael Pollan eating-well sacrifice pleasure One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to corporations, they tend to cook with far too much salt, fat, and sugar. Michael Pollan corporations sugar cooking Avoid food products with more than five ingredients; with ingredients you can't pronounce. Michael Pollan It's really important for your health, because you will never use as much salt and fat and sugar as a corporation will use cooking for you. Michael Pollan cooking important use When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest - the added sugars and fats in processed foods. Michael Pollan groceries stores sugar All the arguments about nutrition are really about what is the problem ingredient in the western diet. Is it the fat? Is it the lack of fiber? Is it the refined carbohydrates?But we don't have to worry about it. We just have to try to get off that diet to the extent we can. Michael Pollan fiber worry trying Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure become a process of converting fossil fuels into Michael Pollan growing fuel perspective I really do think that cooking is very important. It's really important for the farmers because it means you're going to be buying real food and not processed food, so that means the farmers will capture more of your food dollar. Michael Pollan real mean thinking We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health. And in the inner city, people don't have grocery stores. They have to get on a bus and take a long ride to get to a source of fresh produce. Michael Pollan distance cities long I'm very hopeful that we'll see some change in our food system. I don't know how far we'll go, or how quickly we'll get there, but there is no question that a significant percentage of the American public is dissatisfied with the food system. Michael Pollan percentages significant hopeful If you're going to change the food system, there is a lot that you, the consumer, can do on your own; but in the end, it will be very important to make changes at the national level. Michael Pollan making-changes levels important The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else. Michael Pollan audience political energy Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it’s one of the most powerful things an individual can do - to reduce your carbon footprint, sure, but more important, to reduce your sense of dependence and dividedness: to change the cheap-energy mind. Michael Pollan carbon-footprint garden powerful This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness. Michael Pollan human-nature consciousness desire
