Famous Michael Pollan Quotes

  • We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry. – Michael Pollan

    We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.– Michael Pollan

  • A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef. – Michael Pollan

    A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.– Michael Pollan

  • Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again. – Michael Pollan

    Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again.– Michael Pollan

  • There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. – Michael Pollan

    There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn.– Michael Pollan

  • Though they won’t say, it has been estimated that Cargill and ADM together probably buy somewhere near a third of all the corn grown in America. – Michael Pollan

    Though they won’t say, it has been estimated that Cargill and ADM together probably buy somewhere near a third of all the corn grown in America.– Michael Pollan

  • [Smil] estimates that two of every five humans on Earth today would not be alive if not for Fritz Haber’s invention of the Haber-Bosch process. – Michael Pollan

    [Smil] estimates that two of every five humans on Earth today would not be alive if not for Fritz Haber’s invention of the Haber-Bosch process.– Michael Pollan

  • Leave something on your plate… ‘Better to go to waste than to waist – Michael Pollan

    Leave something on your plate… ‘Better to go to waste than to waist– Michael Pollan

  • As grandmothers used to say, ‘Better to pay the grocer than the doctor – Michael Pollan

    As grandmothers used to say, ‘Better to pay the grocer than the doctor– Michael Pollan

  • Planted, a single corn seed yielded more than 150 fat kernels, often as many as 300, while the return on a seed of wheat was something less than 50:1 – Michael Pollan

    Planted, a single corn seed yielded more than 150 fat kernels, often as many as 300, while the return on a seed of wheat was something less than 50:1– Michael Pollan

  • Great cooking is all about the three ‘p’s: patience, presence, and practice. – Michael Pollan

    Great cooking is all about the three ‘p’s: patience, presence, and practice.– Michael Pollan