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I'm kind of a homebody, and the rhythm of my thinking and work is starting at home, going out and coming back, bringing back news, bringing back information, applying it.

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Michael Pollan
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 6
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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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There's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.
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We all have different priorities. There's no one single set of ethical rules.
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The first step towards solving the omnivore's dilemma is knowledge: eating with full consciousness. When that happens, I have a lot of confidence that people will make good choices.
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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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People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human - in the fact that so much of what we desire for our happiness and need for our survival comes at a heavy cost.
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The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.
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The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
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All the arguments about nutrition are really about what is the problem ingredient in the western diet. Is it the fat? Is it the lack of fiber? Is it the refined carbohydrates?But we don't have to worry about it. We just have to try to get off that diet to the extent we can.
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If you're cooking food, you don't have to count calories.
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Are we, finally, speaking of nature or culture when we speak of a rose (nature), that has been bred (culture) so that its blossoms (nature) make men imagine (culture) the sex of women (nature)? It may be this sort of confusion that we need more of.
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The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.
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Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.
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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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So that's us: processed corn, walking.
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For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?
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Much more has to be done to democratize the food movement. One of the reasons that healthy food is more expensive than unhealthy food is that the government supports unhealthy food and does very little to support healthy food, whether you mean organic or grass-fed or whatever.
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You are what what you eat eats.
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