Michael Pollan Eating Quotations

Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat.

Stop eating before you're full.

One USDA scientist went so far as to claim that there has never been a documented case of food-borne illness from eating fermented vegetables.

Do all your eating at a table.

Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not conducive to good health.

One of the most irresponsible things we can do is eat in ignorance, without any awareness of what our eating is doing to the world or to other species.

Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of what it is, it's enormously satisfying.

Shake the hand that feeds you.

Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.

You are what what you eat eats.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.

Eating is a political act.

If you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't be eating it.

There's no sacrifice in eating well, there is no sacrifice in pleasure. To the contrary, the best-grown food is actually the tastiest.

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

Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.