Michael Pollan Quotes About Failing

• The great virtue of a diversified food economy, like a diverse pasture or farm, is its ability to withstand any shock. The important thing is that there be multiple food chains, so that when any one of them fails-when the oil runs out, when mad cow or other food-borne diseases become epidemic, when the pesticides no longer work, when drought strikes and plagues come and soils blow away-we'll still have a way to feed ourselves.

  Michael Pollan

  Running, Blow, Epidemics

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing

• The entire history of baby formula has been the history of one overlooked nutrient after another...and still to this day babies fed on the most "nutritionally complete" formula fail to do as
  well as babies fed human milk. Even more than margarine, formula stands as the ultimate test product of nutritionism and a fair index of its hubris.

  Michael Pollan

  Baby, Tests, Milk

• Todo el problema de la agricultura industrial es poner todos los huevos en la misma cesta. Necesitamos diversificar nuestras cadenas alimentarias, así como nuestros campos, para que cuando alguno de ellos falle, podamos seguir comiendo.

  Michael Pollan

  Eggs, Agriculture, Needs

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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