Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact itโs one of the most powerful things an individual can do - to reduce your carbon footprint, sure, but more important, to reduce your sense of dependence and dividedness: to change the cheap-energy mind.
Michael PollanThis, for many people, is what's most offensive about huntingโto some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing
Michael PollanFor it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.
Michael PollanEvery major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.
Michael PollanEven people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not conducive to good health.
Michael PollanThe growth of the American food industry will always bump up against this troublesome biological fact: Try as we might, each of us can only eat about fifteen hundred pounds of food a year. Unlike many other products - CDs, say, or shoes - there's a natural limit to how much food we each can consume without exploding. What this means for the food industry is that its natural rate of growth is somewhere around 1 percent per year - 1 percent being the annual growth rate of American population. The problem is that [the industry] won't tolerate such an anemic rate of growth.
Michael Pollan