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 1 Share Now -
The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the modern diet is shrinking. For reasons of economics, the food industry prefers to tease its myriad processed offerings from a tiny group of plant species, corn and soybeans chief among them. - Michael Pollan 2 Share Now -
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. - Michael Pollan 3 Share Now -
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before. - Michael Pollan 4 Share Now -
Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook, you start thinking about ingredients. You start thinking about plants and animals and not the microwave. And you will find that your diet, just by that one simple act, that is greatly improved. - Michael Pollan 5 Share Now -
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. - Michael Pollan 6 Share Now -
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms. - Michael Pollan 7 Share Now -
We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have. Much of this food wisdom is worth preserving and reviving and heeding. - Michael Pollan 8 Share Now -
Species co-evolve with the other species they eat, and very often, a relationship of interdependence develops: I'll feed you if you spread around my genes. A gradual process of mutual adaptation transforms something like an apple or a squash into a nutritious and tasty food for a hungry animal. - Michael Pollan 9 Share Now -
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. - Michael Pollan 10 Share Now -
