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Michael Pollan
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 6
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[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.
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The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.
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In a way, the most morally troubling thing about killing chickens is that after a while it is no longer morally troubling.
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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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A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.
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A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.
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The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.
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We are at once the problem and the only possible solution to the problem.
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Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.
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Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.
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A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius.
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Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our identity. As long as humans have been taking meals together, eating has been as much about culture as it has been about biology.
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One of the most irresponsible things we can do is eat in ignorance, without any awareness of what our eating is doing to the world or to other species.
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I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught.
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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.
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Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.
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Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.
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Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation.
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