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Be the kind of person who takes supplements - then skip the supplements.

Michael Pollan

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Michael Pollan
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 6
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Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat.
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The two things are synergistic, the health care crisis and the food crisis. Right now, to a large extent, the food industry's biggest product is patients for the health care industry and we have to break that.
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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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Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).
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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.
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We all have different priorities. There's no one single set of ethical rules.
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