Michael Pollan Quotes

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.

If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and the whole system would look a lot different.

Eating is an agricultural act.

Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.

Right now my favorite book is 'Omnivores Dilemma.'

I've been vegan for 15 years, and it turns out it makes a very big impact on the environment to eat fewer animal products, which cause more greenhouse gases than all of transportation combined.

I do a lot of reading about food and the food industry, so I try to eat locally and go to the farmer's market.

The dialogue and conversation about food is everywhere - television, chat rooms, social media outlets and among everyday conversations.

Everybody eats three times a day; it's only a question of where they choose to eat. The longer-term trends are people eat out more often.

I always take the time to eat well and eat locally because it's common sense.

Attitudes toward food have completely changed.

In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.

Because we only feed in the United States less than 1 per cent of the meals, most of them are eaten elsewhere. Most meals are eaten at home. So to make McDonald's the target is not going to solve the problem.

There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

Man is born to eat.

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

The way to make the world a better place, through your eating, is simply to eat a bit less meat. Local is sometimes good, sometimes bad. But even when it's good, its environmental impact is relatively small compared to other possible improvements.

We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn't recognize value, it's contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it's done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life.

You have to diet before you even go to shoot in Chicago because we just eat the entire time.

I think it's really important to try to eat seasonally as much as possible. It helps put people in touch with what's happening locally and with nature.

I am not a vegetarian. For some time, I tried to be a semi-vegetarian, eating only fish, birds, and no red meat, but... I don't know if I have an opinion on vegetarianism.

I have found myself increasingly moving away from meat. It hasn't been so much a conscious choice as an organic change.

I love the Grub Street Diet. I am particularly fascinated by what people eat; I think it says a lot about people.

As I famously said before, I don't like to waste meals. I'm no one's food snob.