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Michael Pollan
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 6
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Michael Kevin Pollan
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I think there's a real tension between capitalism and morality. That's not to say these systems aren't powerful and useful, but to assume that capitalism can somehow assure moral behavior or character, that's just a pipe dream.
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Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.
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Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.
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Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
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The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.
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I think using waste oils as fuel makes sense. We do waste a huge amount of vegetable oil in this country and using that as a fuel source strikes me as fine.
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We all have different priorities. There's no one single set of ethical rules.
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I try very hard to tell stories and not lecture. I try to approach things as an amateur and not an expert, so that when I'm doing something, I'm starting out in a place a lot like where my readers start out - which is to say, naïve.
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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.
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There are certain products that it's worth buying organic just because the alternatives have so much pesticide. There's a list of the dirty dozen that you can get off the Web. Strawberries, potatoes. A handful of crops that have very high pesticide residues if you don't buy organic. If you eat that a lot, that's a good place to invest.
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Be the kind of person who takes supplements - then skip the supplements.
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I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.
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Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat.
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I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.
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Don't ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap.
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If people eat healthy food, they will save enough to compensate for the food price being healthier and spending less on healthcare.
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Imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what, in a true accounting, it really cost.
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Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.
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Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.
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Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. (Hard cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.)
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