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We all have a limited amount of good judgment. Maya Soetoro-Ng

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I like that there are young people being given opportunities to explore and learn and grow and become themselves with a path that is associated with my mother. She would have liked that very much. Maya Soetoro-Ng

My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim. Maya Soetoro-Ng

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You really need to love something or someone in order to work hard enough to be very successful. You have to believe in something and have a certain optimism. Faith and optimism come from love. Maya Soetoro-Ng

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If you asked me what caused aging, I would say free radicals and molecules, which spontaneously shift and form and cause damage in all our cells and genes. The body usually repairs and replaces the damage in these genes. But as you get older, the aging clock turns down those defenses. Michael Fossel

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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat. Michael Pollan

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People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue. Michael Pollan

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I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist. Michael Pollan

Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about. Michael Pollan

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