76 Motivational Quotes By Michael Pollan That Will Change Your Life Forever
You are what what you eat eats.
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.
Perhaps as the sway of tradition in our eating decisions weakens, habits we once took for granted are thrown up in the air, where they're more easily buffeted by a strong idea or a breeze of fashion.
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.
So that's us: processed corn, walking.
Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.
But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.
Shake the hand that feeds you.
If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don't.
... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.
What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!
The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.
This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing
For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?
Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.
Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.
Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation.
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.
Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.
Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.
Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.
![[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/michael-pollan-37611.jpg)
[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.
Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.
This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.
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We ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin)
We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.
