Michael Pollan Quotes & Sayings

“In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.”

“A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.”

“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”

“I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.”

“Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.”

“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.”

“Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.”

“The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.”

“Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.”

“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.”