Michael Pollan Quotes about Eating

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If you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't be eating it.

If you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't be eating it.

Michael Pollan

Eating, Ifs

You are what what you eat eats.

Michael Pollan

Food, Healthy Eating, Eating

Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.112, Penguin

Stop eating before you're full.

Michael Pollan

Eating

Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.50, Penguin

Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of what it is, it's enormously satisfying.

Michael Pollan

Appreciation, Consciousness, Eating

"Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.

Michael Pollan

Lines, Today, Eating

Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat.

Michael Pollan

Animal, Meat, Eating

Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.

Michael Pollan

Way, Eating, Knows

Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.205, Bloomsbury Publishing

Eating is a political act.

Michael Pollan

Political, Eating, Eco

One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.

Michael Pollan

Vegetables, Eating, Illness

Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.195, Penguin

Even 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 Pollan

People, Kind, Eating

Source: indianapublicmedia.org

One of the most irresponsible things we can do is eat in ignorance, without any awareness of what our eating is doing to the world or to other species.

Michael Pollan

Ignorance, World, Eating

"Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.