Michael Pollan Quotes About Fast Food

• Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food.

  Michael Pollan

  Would Be, Needs, Slow Food

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.206, Bloomsbury Publishing

• The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.

  Michael Pollan

  Animal, Ninety Nine, Oil

• One of the reasons we eat fast food is that we don't have to cook fast food. We are out-sourcing cooking to corporations, they tend to cook with far too much salt, fat, and sugar.

  Michael Pollan

  Cooking, Sugar, Corporations

  Fuente: indianapublicmedia.org

• We do not subsidize organic food. We subsidize these four crops - five altogether, but one is cotton - and these are the building blocks of fast food. One of the ways you democratize healthy food is you support healthy food.

  Michael Pollan

  Block, Support, Healthy

  "Michael Pollan Fixes Dinner (Extended Interview)". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

• The other thing that soy contributes to, of course, is hydrogenated oil. This is the main oil. This is the fast-food oil.

  Michael Pollan

  Oil, Soy, Fast Food

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

• Creo que nos han lavado el cerebro con la idea de que ya no tenemos tiempo para cocinar. Hemos hecho que cocinar parezca mucho más complicado de lo que es, y parte de ello se debe a ver programas de cocina en televisión: hemos convertido la cocina en un deporte para espectadores. ...Mi mujer y yo trabajamos y podemos tener una buena cena en la mesa en media hora. No nos llevaría menos tiempo conducir hasta un establecimiento de comida rápida y pedir, sentarnos y llevarnos la mesa.

  Michael Pollan

  Sports, Nice, Thinking

• One of the problems is that the US government supports unhealthy food and does very little to support healthy food. I mean, we subsidize high fructose corn syrup. We subsidize hydrogenated corn oil. We do not subsidize organic food. We subsidize four crops that are the building blocks of fast food. And you also have to work on access. We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health.

  Michael Pollan

  Block, Distance, Mean

• 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.

• Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's made the fast food industry possible, along with feedlot agriculture, pharmaceuticals on the farm, pesticides and regulatory forbearance. All these things are part of the answer to the question: Why is that crap so cheap? Our food is dishonestly priced. One of the ways in which it's dishonestly priced is the fact that people are not paid a living wage to process it, to serve it, to grow it, to slaughter it.

  Michael Pollan

  Real, Agriculture, People

• Creo haber encontrado en el maíz la clave de la cadena alimentaria estadounidense. Si nos fijamos en una comida rápida, una comida de McDonald's, prácticamente todo el carbono que contiene -y lo que comemos es sobre todo carbono- procede del maíz.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Keys, Mcdonalds

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