Famous Michael Pollan Quotes

High-quality food is better for your health.
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People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.
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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.
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Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.
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My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.
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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.
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At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.
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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.
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Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.
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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.
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