For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.
Michael Pollanwe ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin)
Michael PollanIn a way, the most morally troubling thing about killing chickens is that after a while it is no longer morally troubling.
Michael PollanWhat the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionismโits supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure.
Michael PollanThere are fundamental tensions between the biological reality of the planet and the economic reality. To some extent you can adapt the economy, create a new set of rules and incentives to send it down a better track, but finally people in the first world are going to have to consume a whole lot less.
Michael Pollan