Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Don't eat anything that won't eventually rot. "
Michael Pollan
Anything
Eventually
Rot
Related Quotes:
" I probably spend more on food than a lot of people, and I feel good about the whole food chain I'm supporting when I'm doing it. But even I have to remind myself. I'm always complaining about the prices at the farmer's market. "
Michael Pollan
Food
People
Myself
" Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before. "
Michael Pollan
Food
Company
More
" My whole interest in food grew from my interest in gardens and the question of how we engage with the natural world. To go back even further, I got interested in gardens because I was interested in nature and wilderness and Thoreau and Emerson. "
Michael Pollan
Wilderness
Back
Food
" Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about. "
Michael Pollan
Personal
Much
Like
" Europeans fought for shorter workdays, more vacation time, family leave, and all these kinds of things. Those haven't been priorities in America: it's been about money. You see, in the countries that fought for time, they cook more often; they have less obesity. There are real benefits to having time. "
Michael Pollan
Family
Time
Money
" Bayer's planned acquisition of Monsanto promises to increase concentration in both the seed and agrochemical markets. "
Michael Pollan
Concentration
Planned
Promises
" People have been dealing with health long before there was science, certainly before nutrition science. We're constantly reading about scientific studies that support old wives' tales. "
Michael Pollan
Science
Long
Support
" It's the embrace of corn-based ethanol that has driven up all food prices. It's not making agriculture more sustainable. "
Michael Pollan
More
Agriculture
Driven
" A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals. "
Michael Pollan
Animals
Law
Great
" There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with. "
Michael Pollan
Progress
Wilderness
Culture
" As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection. "
Michael Pollan
Cooking
Space
Reflection
" It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car. "
Michael Pollan
Car
Your
Window
" The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics. "
Michael Pollan
Meaning
American
Black
" You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned. "
Michael Pollan
Cannot
You
Seeds
" As soon as you plow, you're releasing carbon. "
Michael Pollan
Carbon
Releasing
Soon
" I hope that if you're cooking two nights a week, you can try for three. "
Michael Pollan
Hope
Cooking
Three
" For many of us, eating has surprisingly little to do with hunger. We eat out of boredom, for entertainment, to comfort or reward ourselves. Try to be aware of why you're eating, and ask yourself if you're really hungry - before you eat and then again along the way. "
Michael Pollan
You
Comfort
Eating
" The euphemistically named CropLife America speaks for the pesticide industry. "
Michael Pollan
Speaks
America
Industry
" You can make real food in 20, 30 minutes, but we've convinced ourselves that it is a rocket science. It's a shame. It's the media and the food industry: they've fed our panic around time. "
Michael Pollan
Shame
You
Science
" Eat deliberately, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure. "
Michael Pollan
People
Eat
Always
" We now eat at the end of a very long and opaque food chain. Food comes to us ready-made in packages that obscure as much information as they reveal. "
Michael Pollan
Food
Long
End
" My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it. "
Michael Pollan
Good
Good Food
Money
" The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around. "
Michael Pollan
Journalism
Agenda
Way
" I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not. "
Michael Pollan
I Think
Perfect
Goal
" I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification. "
Michael Pollan
Relationship
Mean
Plant
" I'm very picky about the meat I eat. I eat grass-fed beef, which is now becoming more common. Yes, it's still more expensive, but it's a very sustainable product. "
Michael Pollan
Product
Meat
Now
" Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something. "
Michael Pollan
Way
Me
Writing
" I don't think of myself as a spiritual person. "
Michael Pollan
Myself
Spiritual
Think
" Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather: all pervasive and virtually inescapable. "
Michael Pollan
Life
See
Culture
" We spend our lives in front of screens, and cooking is one of the best antidotes. "
Michael Pollan
Lives
Front
Cooking