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
cooking important might
Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do for your health.
discovery answers facts
I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.
struggle animal law
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.
disappointment care reform
It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.
writing done pieces
Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.
doctors pay grocers
Better to pay the grocer than the doctor.
ingredients thirds containing
Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.
years two people
People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.
natural feels likelihood
Any food product that feels compelled to tell you it’s natural in all likelihood is not.
middle periphery shops
Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.
food eating-well dieting
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
challenges
But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.
taste chickens
When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.
american-educator choice good industrial organic supports
When the choice comes down to industrial organic or local, I opt for the local, because it supports much more than good agricultural practice.