Quotes by 'Michael Pollan'

Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan is an American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism...

subsidies poverty environment

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

couple storytelling

The only one I have any trust in is storytelling - there's a couple I have a lot of trust in.

good-food motivated more-money

My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

meals enjoy

Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it

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.

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.

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.

natural feels likelihood

Any food product that feels compelled to tell you it’s natural in all likelihood is not.

american-educator european might power

Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.

american-educator drive farmers growing organic price risk selling start

When Wal-Mart and McDonald's start selling organic food, it will drive down the price to farmers and risk growing a new monoculture.