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. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
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. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
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. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
High-quality food is better for your health. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. Michael Pollan American Educator More Michael Pollan Quotes 0