Michael Pollan Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.”

“This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.”

“You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.”

“In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.”

“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.”

“Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.”

“My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.”

“People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.”

“The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.”

“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.”