75 Quotes by Michael Pollan about Food
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The dream of control is seductive but it leads to monoculture in the field and fortified white bread in the supermarket.
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This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It's not as though the rest of us don't countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture.
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You are what what you eat eats.
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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
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It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.
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Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again.
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We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.
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He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.
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When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.
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