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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."

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"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."

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Akiroq Brost

"So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it."

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Akiroq Brost

"If music be the food of love, play on."

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Akiroq Brost

"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food."

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Akiroq Brost

"As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means."

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Akiroq Brost

"Whoever eats anything at a wedding luncheon? They make the food out of papier mache. My salad had been used four or five times this week."

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Akiroq Brost

"Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy."

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Akiroq Brost

"My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it."

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Akiroq Brost

"Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself."

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Akiroq Brost

"The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war."

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Akiroq Brost

"I woke up find a rather noisy multi-lingual meeting going on. This was great as everyone could participate and even though everything had to be translated into about four different languages it never became boring. After a while the meeting broke up and everyone went for food."

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Michael Pollan
"My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it."

Food

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Michael Pollan
"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."

Food

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Michael Pollan
"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."

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Michael Pollan
"This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness."

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Michael Pollan
"It was the same industrial logic- protein is protein- that made feeding rendered cow parts back to cows seem like a sensible thing to do, until scientists figured out that this practice was spreading BSE [mad cow disease]."

Science

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Michael Pollan
"A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals."

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Michael Pollan
"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."

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Michael Pollan
"Researchers have found that people (and animals) presented with large portions will eat up to 30 percent more than they could otherwise. Human appetite, it turns out, is surprisingly elastic, which makes excellent evolutionary sense: It behooved our hunter gatherer ancestors to feast whenever the opportunity presented itself, allowing them to build up reserves of fat against future famine."

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Michael Pollan
"Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again."

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Michael Pollan
"People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue."

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