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Michael Pollan Quotes

American - Educator | -

Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook, you start thinking about ingredients. You start thinking about plants and animals and not the microwave. And you will find that your diet, just by that one simple act, that is greatly improved.

Food Culture Simple Plants Start

As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for 'better' jobs in the city. We emptied America's rural counties in order to supply workers to urban factories.

Best City Society Better America

If you fill your Agriculture Committee with representatives of commodity farmers, and you don't have urbanites, you don't represent eaters, okay? You don't have people from New York City on these committees, you are going to end up with the kind of farm bills we have: a piece of special interest legislation.

New York People City End Farm You

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.

Think Fairness Perfect Goal I Think

A lot of what you see in the supermarket I would argue is not really food. It's what I call edible, food-like substances.

Food You See Call Would Argue

Even if you don't think you can cook well, you can cook better than the food industry.

Food Think Better You Industry Well

High-quality food is better for your health.

Health Food Better Diet Your

In the amount of time it takes to microwave a TV dinner, you can put something much tastier on the table, I promise.

Time Dinner You Table Something TV

Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even though Obama failed to do many things he indicated he would do around food, Michelle Obama has done a lot to shine a light on the link between diet and health, which is really important.

Health Light Food Shine Care Diet

Eat deliberately, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.

People Possible Always Eat Pleasure

Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.

Food Energy Fast Way Fast Food Land

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

Change Relationship World Plant Mean

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