"The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals" Quotes
Michael Pollan explores the complex food chain, examining the origins and impacts of four different meals to illuminate the choices we face as omnivores.
nonfiction | 450 pages | Published in 2006
Quotes
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
The way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world.
When chickens get to live like chickens, they’ll taste like chickens, too.
The corn is in everything. It’s in the meat, the milk, the soda, the soup.
There is every reason to think that eating industrial meat takes an even greater toll on the environment than driving a Hummer.
We are what we eat, eats.
The way we eat has changed more in the last fifty years than in the previous ten thousand.
The great virtue of hunting as a recreation is that it puts us in touch with the world we live in.
For if cooking is an art, it is also a science.
Every meal is a sacrifice.
