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
Michael Pollan quotes about
garden past century
It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.
ordinary forget moments
For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.
garden tree wagers
Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.
growing ingredients states
Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.
thinking objectivity goal
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not
cooking sugar corporations
One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to corporations, they tend to cook with far too much salt, fat, and sugar.
way eating knows
Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.
meals enjoy
Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it
challenges
But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.
country thinking years
I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on health care in this country. 75% of that money goes to treat chronic diseases, preventable chronic diseases, most of those are linked to diet.
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.
ingredients thirds containing
Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.
car doe fuel
Don't get your fuel from the same place your car does
mean government support
Much more has to be done to democratize the food movement. One of the reasons that healthy food is more expensive than unhealthy food is that the government supports unhealthy food and does very little to support healthy food, whether you mean organic or grass-fed or whatever.