212 Quotes About Vegetables


  • Author Michael Pollan
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    One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.

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  • Author Michael Pollan
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    People eating the western diet of heavily processed food, of lots of meat and added sugar and added fat, and very little whole grains and fruits and vegetables.Populations who eat that way have seriously high incidences of chronic diseases.

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  • Author Michael Pollan
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    Everything we eat begins with a plant turning solar energy into carbohydrates. Everything. Whether we're eating meat or eating vegetables, it all begins there. So I'm always interested in taking things back to the beginning.

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  • Author Julia Quinn
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    Interesting, he later reflected, was perhaps not the correct word.By the time he and Henry arrived back at the house for their midday meal-a scrumptious bowl of hot, sticky porridge-he had mucked out the stable stalls, milked a cow, been pecked by three separate hens, weeded a vegetable garden, and fallen into a trough.

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  • Author Adam Rodriguez
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    [It's] hard to fully enjoy your time on Earth without having your health. Ask anyone battling health issues - most especially, issues that could have been avoided. For me, I read food labels, I seek out places to purchase the best-quality foods available to me, and I inquire about how they are produced (meats and fruits/vegetables).

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  • Author Si Robertson
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    We killed our own hogs, we killed our own beef, we raised our own vegetables, which Mama canned. We did live off the land.

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  • Author Carl Sandburg
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    In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon.

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