Famous Michael Pollan Quotes

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.
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Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
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For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.
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The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
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A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
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I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.
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The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.
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In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.
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The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
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The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.
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