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“Cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it’s a short way from not knowing who’s at the other end of your food chain to not caring – to the carelessness of both producers and consumers.” (The Omnivore’s Dilemma Quotes)
Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
“Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn’t disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you’d be willing to share.”
Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
“Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.”
Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
“Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.”
Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
“I like to be able to open a can of stock and I like to talk about politics, or the movies, at the dinner table sometimes instead of food.”
Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
“More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands….. Relations are what matter most.”
Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
“Part of the appeal of hamburgers and nuggets is that their boneless abstractions allow us to forget we’re eating animals.”
Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
“Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again.”
Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
“The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.”
Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
“The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. ”
Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
“There is every reason to believe that corn has succeeded in domesticating us.”
Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
“This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing. It’s not as though the rest of us don’t countenance the killing of tens of millions of animals every year. Yet for some reason we feel more comfortable with the mechanical killing practiced, out of view and without emotion by industrial agriculture.”
Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
“Twenty thousand birds moved away from me as one, like a ground-hugging white cloud, clucking softly.”
Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
“Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest.”
Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
“We are not only what we eat, but how we eat, too.”
Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
“When chickens get to live like chickens, they’ll taste like chickens, too.”
Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
