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
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The other thing that soy contributes to, of course, is hydrogenated oil. This is the main oil. This is the fast-food oil.
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Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
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Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food,
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Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.
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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.
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The real food is not being advertised
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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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At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.
food animal community
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.
food eating-well dieting
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
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While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of ability than priority. p.187
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You are what what you eat eats.
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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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Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.