Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 February 1955
CityLong Island, NY
CountryUnited States of America
corn-syrup numbers ingredients
Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup
food hands healthy-eating
Shake the hand that feeds you.
real cost subsidies
Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere. And if it isn't paid at the cash register, it's charged to the environment or to the public purse in the form of subsidies. And it's charged to your health.
disappointment care reform
It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.
food garden might
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
plant made ifs
If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.
years people enough
In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not eaten by humans as food, however.
children issues choices
Students are very engaged by the issues, and it's not surprising because food choices are one of the few powers a child has.
order healthy confusing
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.
healing cake chocolate
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.
environment lawns totalitarian-regimes
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
community identity fuel
Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.
cooking important scratches
Cooking (from scratch) is the single most important thing we could do as a family to improve our health and general well-being.
wall animal meat-industry
Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.