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For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world.

Michael Pollan

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Michael Pollan
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 6
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