Michael Pollan Quotes

The artificial is everywhere; everywhere food is adulterated, filled with ingredients that supposedly make it last longer, or look better, or pass as "enriched" or whatever else the industry's admen want us to believe.

CHOW^TM contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded, carefully designed to be ignored by even the most ravenous digestive tract enzymes; no-cal sweeteners; mineral oils replacing vegetable oils; fibrous materials, colorings, and flavorings. The end result was a foodstuff almost indistinguishable from any other except for two things. Firstly, the price, which was slightly higher, and secondly, the nutritional content, which was roughly equivalent to that of a Sony Walkman.

The growing attention Americans are paying to what they put into their mouths has touched off a new scramble by the processed-food companies to address health concerns.

In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

In the hands of food manufacturers, cheese has become an 'ingredient.'

Let's keep the chemists over here and the food over here, that's my feeling. What do I know? But that is a big aspect of fast food is their ability to artificially taint the colors and the smells and stuff to stimulate appetite.

A lot of what you see in the supermarket I would argue is not really food. It's what I call edible, food-like substances.

With the Industrial Revolution, the production of food was delegated to big companies in order for women and men to be in the labour force, to come home, stick something in the oven, and eat. It became a big industry that does not have a love affair with food nor is really concerned about nurturing you or giving you the right nutrition.

If man made it, don't eat it.

The key to eating healthy is not eating any food that has a TV commercial.

I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more intrigued I became.

My favorite foods are things that aren't great to eat, like pizza.

As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.

Pressed by the Obama administration and consumers, Kraft, Nestle, Pepsi, Campbell and General Mills, among others, have begun to trim the loads of salt, sugar and fat in many products.

Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people don't seem to care about the fat aspect.

I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.

Most Americans live on a diet that includes processed fare that is neither fresh nor natural.

There's a lot of processed food in America and I know that can make some tourists who're used to fresh food feel sick.

The playing field is anything but level when you walk into the grocery store. So much government subsidy goes into processed foods. Even when you're well-meaning as a parent or a shopper for yourself, you can't help but be pulled toward the highly processed food.

The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of.

McDonald's is over with. But chips and candy and stuff, it's going to be hard to get away from that.

There are powdered salts, chunked salts, salts shaped in different ways with various additives to work perfectly with processed foods. All of them are geared to increase allure.

When a raw food becomes processed food, it can be best valued, protected, stored, and safely delivered to customers.

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.