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Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.

Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.

Michael Pollan
Quality, Poor, Wealthy

High-quality food is better for your health.

Michael Pollan
Quality, Longevity, Diets

A French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the ‘pieds de Dieu’—the feet of god. Just to be clear: foot odor of a particularly exalted quality, but still—foot odor.

Michael Pollan
Feet, Quality, Odor
Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.222, Penguin

The first thing to understand about nutritionism is that it is not the same thing as nutrition. As the "-ism" suggests, it is not a scientific subject but an ideology. Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's still exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather--all pervasive and so virtually impossible to escape. Still, we can try.

Michael Pollan
Weather, Trying, Quality
Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.28, Penguin

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