Students are very engaged by the issues, and it's not surprising because food choices are one of the few powers a child has.
Michael PollanThe things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
Michael PollanUp until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. ("Hard" cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.)
Michael PollanFood is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.
Michael PollanMy work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.
Michael PollanThere are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious food. So, I'm not prepared to give up meat. I don't think we need to give up meat, but we certainly need to change the way we raise meat and diminish the amount of it in our diet.
Michael Pollan