Quotes By Michael Pollan

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

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

You cannot eat apples planted from seeds. They must be grafted, cloned.

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.