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If it came from a plant, eat it if it was made in a plant, don't.

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Michael Pollan
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 6
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...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic salad to a plate on the East Coast takes more than 4,600 calories of fossil fuel energy, or 57 calories of fossil fuel for every calorie of food.
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If you're cooking food, you don't have to count calories.
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To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction.
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There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.
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Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.
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Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.
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