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Michael Pollan Quotes

American - Educator | -

A cow out on grass is just an incredible thing to behold... Cows and other ruminants can do things we just can't do. They have the most highly evolved digestive organ on the planet, called the rumen. And the rumen can digest grass. It takes grass, cellulose in grass, and turns it into protein, very nutritious protein. We can't do that.

Cow Grass Out Planet Things Protein

There is nothing wrong with eating sweets, fried foods, pastries, even drinking soda every now and then, but food manufacturers have made eating these formerly expensive and hard-to-make treats so cheap and easy that we're eating them every day.

Food Day Eating Easy Every Day Now

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

Nature Gardening Garden Place Meet

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Nature Gardening Lawn Rule

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.

Food More Industry Demand Sensitive

Is there any practice less selfish, any time less wasted than preparing something nourishing and delicious for the people you love?

Love Time Practice People Selfish

I can probably earn more in an hour of writing or even teaching than I could save in a whole week of cooking. Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it undermines any sense of responsibility.

Responsibility Ignorance Cooking Week

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

Food People Environmental Slow Issue

If you made all the French fries you ate, you would eat them much less often, if only because they're so much work. The same holds true for fried chicken, chips, cakes, pies, and ice cream. Enjoy these treats as often as you're willing to prepare them - chances are good it won't be every day.

Work Good Day Enjoy You Ice Cream

The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the modern diet is shrinking. For reasons of economics, the food industry prefers to tease its myriad processed offerings from a tiny group of plant species, corn and soybeans chief among them.

Food Economics Plant Diet Group

You know what a lima bean does when it's attacked by spider mites? It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into the world and summons another species of mite that comes in and attacks the spider mite, defending the lima bean. So what plants have - while we have consciousness, toolmaking, language, they have biochemistry.

Plants World Language You Know Out

McDonald's is in a unique position. They can decide they don't want meat with hormones in it, and that will be the end of hormones in meat. I actually think exerting pressure on McDonald's is probably just as important as on the Department of Agriculture.

Think End Pressure Unique McDonald

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