Quotes by Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Explore a curated collection of 14 quotes by Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

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 fro — 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 — 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 r — 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 — 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 — 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
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 o — Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marke — 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 — 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 ju — Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. "When you pick up that box of portable yogurt tube — 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 — 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 soare — Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto