Quotes by : Michael Pollan

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter....

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge....

Every day between now and his slaughter in six months, 534 [Pollan's steer] will convert 32 pounds of....

[Smil] estimates that two of every five humans on Earth today would not be alive if not for Fritz Haber's....

The more serious about gardening I became, the more dubious lawns seemed. The problem for me was not,....

That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of....

The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual....

It was the same industrial logic- protein is protein- that made feeding rendered cow parts back to cows....

Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not....

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture....