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The only one I have any trust in is storytelling - there's a couple I have a lot of trust in.
Michael Pollan
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Michael Pollan
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 6
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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.
Michael Pollan
Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.
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Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.
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I work very hard on finding good characters who can explain things to me, and I use them to help tell the story. I organize my pieces not just around people but around animals and plants, energy flows, the path that carbon takes through the food system.
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There are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious food. So, I'm not prepared to give up meat. I don't think we need to give up meat, but we certainly need to change the way we raise meat and diminish the amount of it in our diet.
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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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We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.
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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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It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.
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Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.
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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
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Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.
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A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
Michael Pollan
Farms produce a lot more than food they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.
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Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.
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My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.
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Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food.
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We're supposed to show people how the world is, to give them the tools they need to make good decisions as citizens or consumers. Depending on what your values are - the environment, your health, animal welfare - the answers are going to be different for every person.
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But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees - is seriously unprofitable if you're a food company, a definite career loser if you're nutritionist, and just plain boring if you're a newspaper editor or reporter.
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Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.
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