Michael Pollan Quotes About Eating

Quotes about: Eating

• 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.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Animal, Community

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.156, Penguin

• You are what what you eat eats.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Healthy Eating, Eating

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.112, Penguin

• Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

  Michael Pollan

  Family, Food, Community

• Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.

  Michael Pollan

  Way, Eating, Knows

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.205, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Eating Well, Dieting

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating”, Penguin UK

• ... 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.

  Michael Pollan

  Profound, Mind, Culture

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Food is also about pleasure, about community, about family and spirituality, about our relationship to the natural world, and about expressing our identity. As long as humans have been taking meals together, eating has been as much about culture as it has been about biology.

  Michael Pollan

  Long, Community, Together

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.16, Penguin

• One surprise is how deeply the food system is implicated in climate change. I don't think that has really been on people's radar until very recently. 25 to 33 percent of climate change gases can be traced to the food system. I was also surprised that those diseases that we take for granted as what will kill us - heart disease, cancer, diabetes - were virtually unknown 150 years ago, before we began eating this way.

  Michael Pollan

  Cancer, Heart, Thinking

  "Michael Pollan Fixes Dinner". Interview With Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

• One of the powerful things about the food issue is that people feel empowered by it. There are so many areas of our life where we feel powerless to change things, but your eating issues are really primal. You decide every day what you're going to put in your body and what you refuse to put in your body. That's politics at its most basic.

  Michael Pollan

  Powerful, Issues, People

  "Michael Pollan: Eating Is a Political Act". Interview with Mark Eisen, www.alternet.org. November 7, 2008.

• People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.

  Michael Pollan

  Agriculture, People, Profound

  Source: leitesculinaria.com

• One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.

  Michael Pollan

  Vegetables, Eating, Illness

  Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.195, Penguin

• Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Grandmother, Cooking

  Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.1, Penguin

• Our ingenuity in feeding ourselves is prodigious, but at various points our technologies come into conflict with nature's ways of doing things, as when we seek to maximize efficiency by planting crops or raising animals in vast mono-cultures. This is something nature never does, always and for good reasons practicing diversity instead. A great many of the health and environmental problems created by our food system owe to our attempts to oversimplify nature's complexities, at both the growing and the eating ends of our food chain.

  Michael Pollan

  Technology, Animal, Diversity

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Eating is a political act.

  Michael Pollan

  Political, Eating, Eco

• That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Ideas, People

• Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.

  Michael Pollan

  Humanity, Sun, Eating

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.28, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi that have been sacrificed to gratify our needs and desires, as well as the places and the people that produced them. Cooks have their ways of saying grace too... Cooking something thoughtfully is a way to celebrate both that species and our relation to it.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, People, Grace

• The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.

  Michael Pollan

  Lines, Today, Eating

• Everything we eat begins with a plant turning solar energy into carbohydrates. Everything. Whether we're eating meat or eating vegetables, it all begins there. So I'm always interested in taking things back to the beginning.

  Michael Pollan

  Vegetables, Energy, Meat

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

• People who snack sometimes sometimes eat kind of thoughtlessly and end up eating a lot more. But in principle, it's a really good idea if you can exert the kind of discipline needed.

  Michael Pollan

  Snacks, Ideas, Discipline

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

• 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

  Animal, Meat, Eating

• For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world.

  Michael Pollan

  Grace, Needs, World

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.206, Bloomsbury Publishing

• I agree insofar as we eat too much meat. We're eating about 200 pounds per person per year. That's about 9 ounces a day. That's probably more than is good for us and it's certainly more than is good for the environment.

  Michael Pollan

  Years, Meat, Too Much

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

• Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of what it is, it's enormously satisfying.

  Michael Pollan

  Appreciation, Consciousness, Eating

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

• Meat is a tremendous environmental challenge. It contributes enormous amounts of greenhouse gas, especially beef eating.

  Michael Pollan

  Challenges, Environmental, Meat

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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