Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.
More Quotes from Michael Pollan:
I don't think it's a journalist's job to issue shopping lists or policy descriptions. We're supposed to show people how the world is, to give them the tools they need to make good decisions as citizens or consumers. Depending on what your values are the environment, your health, animal welfare the answers are going to be different for every person.Michael Pollan
At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.
Michael Pollan
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
Michael Pollan
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.
Michael Pollan
The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.
Michael Pollan
My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.
Michael Pollan
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Food QuotesBased on Keywords: calories, protein, resulting, soybeans
I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
Jack Steinberger
Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist.
Michael Bolton
It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
Edmund Barton