Michael Specter Quotes

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

There are certain products that it's worth buying organic just because the alternatives have so much pesticide. There's a list of the dirty dozen that you can get off the Web. Strawberries, potatoes. A handful of crops that have very high pesticide residues if you don't buy organic. If you eat that a lot, that's a good place to invest.

We've been using vaccination in some form for hundreds of years now. We have almost nothing in our modern medicine that we've been using that long, and it's been consistently productive even though, you know, the older vaccines were much more dangerous than vaccines we're using now.

If we pursue organic farming as our healthy food style, we can bring down cost of treatment to a great extent.

Well, we all age, but I'd been taking herbal supplements for a long time.

The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's how I see it.

As I got older and more educated about things like chemicals in food and how beef is processed, I simply stopped eating certain things because it felt like the right thing to do.

I always sought out organic produce because to me it always tasted better; the quality was better - if you got it fresh.

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

It is difficult to get organic food at most restaurants, so when possible, eat at home. When not, do your best.

Although the trends are promising and reishi mushrooms exhibit a number of interesting medicinal properties, modern scientific techniques have yet to affirm its traditional 'panacea polypore' status.

I'm not a big believer in vitamins and all that stuff.

So many artists today will talk about green this or organic that, but you know what? What we are eating, I think, is really doing a lot of bad to us. I'm not sure if I'm the guy to do it right now, because I have to clean up my house too, so to speak, but we've got to start addressing this. Too many people are getting sick today.

If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.

I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.

To me, you make a tradeoff. It might be a little bit more expensive. But you're getting a better tasting, higher quality food that's going to be better for your health and better for the environment.

I'm perfectly happy to eat organic food, but if I choose to pay more for it, I don't pat myself on the back ethically. Quite the reverse. I think I'm actually being quite greedy, because what I'm doing is essentially saying, 'I want more land to be devoted to growing my food.'

I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antibiotics, three quarters of us would not be here.

I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind.

I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.

Nature would terminate the fevers by changing the seasons.

Vaccines, genetically modified crops and foods, and cell phones are not threats to our well being.

If some consumers believe that it's better from the point of view of their health to have organic food, God bless them. Let them buy it. Let them pay a bit more.

Organic is loaded with a sense of rightness, with a set of rules. I would much rather someone bought food that was local and sustainable but not organic than bought organic food that had to be shipped across the world.

I remember talking to someone who is vegan. At the time, I would hear a lot of outrageous claims from vegans about the good that being a vegan can do for you, for your health and whatnot. I remember someone once told me vegans don't sweat, so I started my mind going.