Latest Michael Pollan Quotes from Interviews

• 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

• Una sorpresa es lo profundamente implicado que está el sistema alimentario en el cambio climático. No creo que la gente lo haya tenido en cuenta hasta hace muy poco. Entre el 25% y el 33% de los gases del cambio climático pueden atribuirse al sistema alimentario. También me sorprendió que las enfermedades que damos por sentado que nos matarán (cardiopatías, cáncer, diabetes) eran prácticamente desconocidas hace 150 años, antes de que empezáramos a comer de esta manera.

  Michael Pollan

  Cáncer, Corazón, Pensamiento

  "Michael Pollan prepara la cena". Entrevista con Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. Marzo/abril de 2009.

• We're spending, on average, 27 minutes a day cooking and about four minutes cleaning up, so basically about a half hour. Any one of TV shows takes twice as long to watch as that, which I think is very interesting because the main excuse people give for not cooking is they don't have time to cook, but somehow they're finding time to watch other people cook or eat on TV.

  Michael Pollan

  Pensar, Largo, Gente

  "Michael Pollan On Cooking As A Spectator Sport". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. August 3, 2009.

• Avoid food products that make health claims. at meals and eat them only at tables. And no, a desk is not a table.

  Michael Pollan

  Fuente: www.omnivoracious.com

• Eat only until you're 4/5 full. An ancient Japanese injunction.

  Michael Pollan

  Antiguo

  Fuente: www.omnivoracious.com

• Pay more, eat less. Diversify your diet and eat wild foods when you can.

  Michael Pollan

  Fuente: www.omnivoracious.com

• Come despacio, con otras personas siempre que sea posible, y siempre con placer.

  Michael Pollan

  Personas, Placer

  Fuente: www.omnivoracious.com

• Avoid food products with more than five ingredients; with ingredients you can't pronounce.

  Michael Pollan

  Fuente: www.omnivoracious.com

• You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist.

  Michael Pollan

  Lines, Activist, Journalist

• You want to say the thing that will drive everybody in the direction you want to go. But as a writer you have a pact with your readers that you'll be really straight with them at all times.

  Michael Pollan

  Want, Pact, All Time

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

• In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to draw the line.

  Michael Pollan

  Responsibility, Lines, Firsts

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

• Not that I'm against meat eating. But I think we're eating too much.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Meat Eating, Too Much

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

• 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

• Oil companies have gas stations. There's this whole huge structure that is about finding a new liquid for the tank. And the idea that maybe there shouldn't be a liquid, that maybe the best is an electrical grid, a sustainably powered electrical grid that we all plug into, that doesn't sit well with oil companies.

  Michael Pollan

  Ideas, Oil, Tanks

• I think using waste oils as fuel makes sense. We do waste a huge amount of vegetable oil in this country and using that as a fuel source strikes me as fine.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Vegetables, Oil

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

• The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.

  Michael Pollan

  Everyday, Special, Soda

• It's estimated that about 30 percent of the increase in grain prices could be attributed to the decision to embrace biofuels, particularly corn-based ethanol. It has done nothing for climate change and the business is in real trouble now with the collapse of oil prices. It's completely dependent on a dollar subsidy and tariff from the government.

  Michael Pollan

  Real, Government, Oil

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

• 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

• There's a lot of research that suggests that organic yields are close or superior to conventional yields depending on factors like climate. In a drought year an organic field of corn will yield more - considerably more - than a conventional field; organic fields hold moisture better so they don't need as much water. It simply isn't true that organic yields are lower than conventional yields.

  Michael Pollan

  Yield, Years, Water

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

• All money for agricultural extension, land grant universities has been toward developing industrial food. Lots of money has been invested toward maximizing yield. If you took even a small amount of that money and put it toward organic research, I don't have any doubts you could match those yields.

  Michael Pollan

  Yield, Land, Doubt

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

• Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who don't have the money to invest in better food, but perhaps they have the time. There's a trade-off: The more time you're willing to put into food preparation, the less money you have to spend.

  Michael Pollan

  People, Preparation, Ingredients

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

• There are certain products that it's worth buying organic just because the alternatives have so much pesticide. There's a list of the dirty dozen that you can get off the Web. Strawberries, potatoes. A handful of crops that have very high pesticide residues if you don't buy organic. If you eat that a lot, that's a good place to invest.

  Michael Pollan

  Dirty, Alternatives, Dozen

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

• We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow people to eat well cheaply. For example making three or four meals from a chicken, rather than buying chicken breasts.

  Michael Pollan

  Skills, People, Example

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

• En nuestras ciudades hay desiertos alimentarios. Sabemos que la distancia a la que vives de un proveedor de productos frescos es uno de los mejores indicadores de tu salud. Y en el centro de la ciudad, la gente no tiene tiendas de comestibles. Tienen que coger un autobús y hacer un largo viaje para llegar a una fuente de productos frescos.

  Michael Pollan

  Distance, Cities, Long

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

• La otra forma de democratizar el movimiento alimentario es a través del sistema escolar público. Si puedes pagar lo suficiente por el sistema de almuerzos escolares para que realmente se pueda cocinar y no sólo microondas, para que estas escuelas puedan comprar alimentos locales, alimentos frescos, porque ahora todo es congelado y procesado, mejorarás la salud de los estudiantes, mejorarás la salud de la economía local, y tendrás estudiantes con mejor rendimiento.

  Michael Pollan

  School, Lunch, Frozen

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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