Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 February 1955
CityLong Island, NY
CountryUnited States of America
food agriculture division
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.
quality high-quality diets
High-quality food is better for your health.
corn-syrup numbers ingredients
Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup
people healthy healthcare
If people eat healthy food, they will save enough to compensate for the food price being healthier and spending less on healthcare.
issues people environmental
People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.
subsidies poverty environment
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.
hunting people animal-rights
This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing
couple storytelling
The only one I have any trust in is storytelling - there's a couple I have a lot of trust in.
food home stories
At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.
dog animal intelligent
There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig - an animal easily as intelligent as a dog - that becomes the Christmas ham.
growing ingredients states
Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.
made caps
Don't ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap.
community groups individual
Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently concluded in a landmark review article on microbial ecology - that is, as a function of the community, not the individual.
doe recognition mystery
The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.