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One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to corporations, they tend to cook with far too much salt, fat, and sugar.
Michael Pollan
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Michael Pollan
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 6
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