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
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Most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation.
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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.
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There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, as long as every day is not a special occasion.
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Any food product that feels compelled to tell you it’s natural in all likelihood is not.
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Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.
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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
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But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.
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When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.
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When the choice comes down to industrial organic or local, I opt for the local, because it supports much more than good agricultural practice.
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Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.
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When Wal-Mart and McDonald's start selling organic food, it will drive down the price to farmers and risk growing a new monoculture.