Michael Pollan Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

• A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

  Michael Pollan

  Environment, Grass, Lawns

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.48, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere. And if it isn't paid at the cash register, it's charged to the environment or to the public purse in the form of subsidies. And it's charged to your health.

  Michael Pollan

  Real, Subsidies, Cash

  "Fresh". Documentary, News, www.imdb.com. 2009.

• The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.

  Michael Pollan

  Agriculture, Subsidies, Poverty

• Organic Oreos are not a health food. When Coca-Cola begins selling organic Coke, as it surely will, the company will have struck a blow for the environment perhaps, but not for our health. Most consumers automatically assume that the word "organic" is synomymous with health, but it makes no difference to your insulin metabolism if the high-fructose corn syrup in your soda is organic.

  Michael Pollan

  Blow, Corn Syrup, Differences

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.113, Penguin

• The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Ninety Nine, Oil

• Farms produce a lot more than food; they also produce a kind of landscape and a kind of community.

  Michael Pollan

  Community, Landscape, Kind

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.133, Bloomsbury Publishing

• We're supposed to show people how the world is, to give them the tools they need to make good decisions as citizens or consumers. Depending on what your values are - the environment, your health, animal welfare - the answers are going to be different for every person.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, People, Giving

• I realize that at a certain point if we're going to change our food system, it's going to be the next generation that's going to be critical. This generation is very interested in food issues, very concerned about things like animal welfare and the impact of the food system on the environment.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Impact, Issues

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

• If you care about the animals, actually, organic might not be the best answer because now we have organic feedlots, organic factory farms. If you care about the environment - pesticides, especially - organic is the answer.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Answers, Care

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

• 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

• The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.

  Michael Pollan

  Environment, Passing, Passings

• The interesting thing I learned was that if you're really concerned about your health, the best decisions for your health turn out to be the best decisions for the farmers and the best decisions for the environment-and that there is no contradiction there.

  Michael Pollan

  Interesting, Decision, Environment

• The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is that there be multiple food chains, so that when any one of them fails-when the oil runs out, when mad cow or other food-borne diseases become epidemic, when the pesticides no longer work, when drought strikes and plagues come and soils blow away-we'll still have a way to feed ourselves.

  Michael Pollan

  Running, Blow, Epidemics

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing

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