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Michael Pollan

American Educator

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If you fill your Agriculture Committee with representatives of commodity farmers, and you don't have urbanites, you don't represent eaters, okay? You don't have people from New York City on these committees, you are going to end up with the kind of farm bills we have: a piece of special interest legislation. Michael Pollan

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You look how much sugar is in a typical supermarket loaf of bread: it's a lot of sugar. It's just become one of those sugar delivery systems in our food economy. Michael Pollan

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The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies. Michael Pollan

Poverty Correlation Obesity Between Policies Subsidies Agricultural

To a very great extent, it's the fast-food industry that really industrialized our agriculture - that drove the system to one variety of chicken grown very quickly in confinement, to the feedlot system for beef, to giant monocultures to grow potatoes. All of those thing flow from the desire of fast-food companies for a perfectly consistent product. Michael Pollan

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There is nothing wrong with eating sweets, fried foods, pastries, even drinking soda every now and then, but food manufacturers have made eating these formerly expensive and hard-to-make treats so cheap and easy that we're eating them every day. Michael Pollan

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If you made all the French fries you ate, you would eat them much less often, if only because they're so much work. The same holds true for fried chicken, chips, cakes, pies, and ice cream. Enjoy these treats as often as you're willing to prepare them - chances are good it won't be every day. Michael Pollan

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Meat is a mighty contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. The amount of meat we're eating is one of the leading causes of climate change. It's as important as the kind of car you drive - whether you eat meat a lot or how much meat you eat. Michael Pollan

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Looking at the world from other species' points of view is a cure for the disease of human self-importance. You suddenly realize that consciousness - which we value and we consider the crowning achievement of nature, human consciousness - is really just another set of tools for getting along in the world. Michael Pollan

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At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind. Michael Pollan

Food Home Kind Know Behind Story Serve

You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned. Michael Pollan

You Must Eat Seeds Cannot Planted Apples

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness. Michael Pollan

Nature Change Human Nature Part Human Consciousness Desire

After writing 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' I wanted to write a book that got past the choir, that got to people who didn't care about how their food was grown but who did care about their health. Michael Pollan

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The French fry did not become America's most popular vegetable until industry took over the jobs of washing, peeling, cutting, and frying the potatoes - and cleaning up the mess. Michael Pollan

We are the species who cooks. No other species cooks. And when we learned to cook, we became truly human. Michael Pollan

Other Learned Became Truly Human Cook Who Cooks Species

Specialization makes it easy to forget about the filth of the coal-fired power plant that is lighting this pristine computer screen, or the backbreaking labor it took to pick the strawberries for my cereal, or the misery of the hog that lived and died so I could enjoy my bacon. Michael Pollan

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Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you. Michael Pollan

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