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In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto Quotes
The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power – thirty-two billion dollars a year – used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left us where we now find ourselves: relying on science and journalism and government and marketing to help us decide what to eat.
— Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup
— Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
You are what what you eat eats.
— Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
— Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, spending on health care has soared? In 1960 Americans spent 17.5 percent of their income on food and 5.2 percent of national income on health care. Since then, those numbers have flipped: Spending on food has fallen to 9.9 percent, while spending on heath care has climbed to 16 percent of national income. I have to think that by spending a little more on healthier food we could reduce the amount we have to spend on heath care.
— Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
That anyone should need to write a book advising people to “eat food” could be taken as a measure of our alienation and confusion. Or we can choose to see it in a more positive light and count ourselves fortunate indeed that there is once again real food for us to eat.
— Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.
— Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.
— Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
While it is true that many people simply can’t afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we’ve somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of ability than priority. p.187
— Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.
— Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
You may not think you eat a lot of corn and soybeans, but you do: 75 percent of the vegetable oils in your diet come from soy (representing 20 percent of your daily calories) and more than half of the sweeteners you consume come from corn (representing around 10 perecent of daily calories).
— Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.
— Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it’s high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of turkeys are the Broad-Breasted Whites.
— Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto
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