Michael Pollan Quotes About Energy

• ...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic salad to a plate on the East Coast takes more than 4,600 calories of fossil fuel energy, or 57 calories of fossil fuel for every calorie of food.

  Michael Pollan

  Cooking, Energy, East

  Michael Pollan (2006). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals”, p.180, Penguin

• Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by green plants and stored in the form of complex carbon molecules. A food chain is a system for passing those calories on to species that lack the pant's unique ability to synthesize them from sunlight.

  Michael Pollan

  Unique, Green Plants, Competition

• Everything we eat begins with a plant turning solar energy into carbohydrates. Everything. Whether we're eating meat or eating vegetables, it all begins there. So I'm always interested in taking things back to the beginning.

  Michael Pollan

  Vegetables, Energy, Meat

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

• Me esfuerzo mucho en encontrar buenos personajes que puedan explicarme las cosas, y los utilizo para ayudar a contar la historia. Organizo mis piezas no sólo en torno a las personas, sino también en torno a los animales y las plantas, los flujos de energía, el camino que sigue el carbono a través del sistema alimentario.

  Michael Pollan

  Character, Animal, People

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

• Wrangham cites several studies indicating that in fact humans don't do well on raw food: they can't maintain their body weight, and half of the women on a raw-food regimen stop menstruating. Devotees of raw food rely heavily on juicers and blenders, because otherwise they would have to spend as much time chewing as the chimps do. It is difficult, if not impossible, to extract sufficient energy from unprocessed plant matter to power a body with such a big, hungry brain.

  Michael Pollan

  Body Weight, Brain, Half

  Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.41, Penguin

• El maíz es una forma eficiente de obtener calorías energéticas de la tierra y la soja es una forma eficiente de obtener proteínas de la tierra, así que hemos diseñado un sistema alimentario que produce mucho maíz y soja baratos, lo que resulta en mucha comida rápida barata.

  Michael Pollan

  Land, Energy, Soybeans

  "The Cheapest Calories Make You the Fattest: A food-chain journalist looks for stories in our meals". Interview with Helen Wagenvoord, michaelpollan.com. September 30, 2004.

• Measured against the Problem We Face, planting a garden sounds pretty benign, I know, but in fact it’s one of the most powerful things an individual can do - to reduce your carbon footprint, sure, but more important, to reduce your sense of dependence and dividedness: to change the cheap-energy mind.

  Michael Pollan

  Powerful, Garden, Carbon Footprint

  "Why Bother?". www.nytimes.com. April 22, 2008.

• The energy I was sensing in audiences was political energy, as much as anything else.

  Michael Pollan

  Political, Energy, Audience

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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