Pollan Quotes

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something. - Michael Pollan

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

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue. - Michael Pollan

Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat. - Michael Pollan

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me. - Michael Pollan

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

It's an extremely sad day for us, because Christmas is a family holiday. Since our husbands are not with us, our families cannot be complete. - Laura Pollan

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda. - Michael Pollan

In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn. - Michael Pollan

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn. - Michael Pollan