Michael Pollan Eating Quotations

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.

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.

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.

Do all your eating at a table.

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.

Stop eating before you're full.

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

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

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.

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

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

Eating is a political act.

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

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

You are what what you eat eats.

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

Shake the hand that feeds you.