Quotes from Michael Pollan

In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not eaten by humans as food, however.

Shake the hand that feeds you.

Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.

Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains as well as our fields so that when some of them fail, we can still eat.

The food system is a very complex beast. There are people who are going to get their food at Wal-Mart or at Safeway; they're not going to the farmers' market. Those people need choices too.

High-quality food is better for your health.

Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food.

Avoid food products with more than five ingredients; with ingredients you can't pronounce.

Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.

The wonderful thing about food is you get three votes a day. Every one of them has the potential to change the world.

At either end of any food chain you find a biological system-a patch of soil, a human body-and the health of one is connected-literally-to the health of the other.

The real food is not being advertised.

It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, animals in the wild don't get good deaths surrounded by their loved ones.

We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have. Much of this food wisdom is worth preserving and reviving and heeding.

Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us bodily - they nourish us psychologically.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not

Looking at the world from other species' points of view is a cure for the disease of human self-importance.

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.

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

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.

High-quality food is better for your health.

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics.