In a way, the most morally troubling thing about killing chickens is that after a while it is no longer morally troubling.
Michael PollanRipe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness from deep amidst the undifferentiated green. To lift a bean plant's hood of heartshaped leaves and discover a clutch of long slender pods handing underneath could make me catch my breath.
Michael PollanOkinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.
Michael PollanIt's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.
Michael Pollan