Frases de Michael Pollan

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Michael Pollan: Frases em inglês

“You are what what you eat eats.”

Fonte: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

Fonte: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“The family meal is the nursery of democracy.”

Contexto: It's [a kitchen/dining table] where we teach our children the manners they need to get along in society. We teach them how to share. To take turns. To argue without fighting and insulting other people. They learn the art of adult conversation. The family meal is the nursery of democracy.

“We forget how much time it can take simply to avoid cooking”

Contexto: We forget how much time it can take simply to avoid cooking: all that time spent driving to restaurants or waiting for our orders, none of which gets counted as 'food preparation'. And much of the half-hour saved by not cooking is spent watching screens.

“Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.”

Fonte: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“So that's us: processed corn, walking.”

Michael Pollan livro The Omnivore's Dilemma

Fonte: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.”

Michael Pollan livro The Omnivore's Dilemma

Fonte: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (New York: The Penguin Press, 2006), p. 333.
Contexto: The industrialization — and brutalization — of animals in America is a relatively new, evitable, and local phenomenon: No other country raises and slaughters its food animals quite as intensively or as brutally as we do. No other people in history has lived at quite so great a remove from the animals they eat. Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

“When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.”

Michael Pollan livro The Omnivore's Dilemma

Fonte: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.”

Michael Pollan livro The Omnivore's Dilemma

Fonte: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“Shake the hand that feeds you.”

Fonte: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

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

Michael Pollan livro The Omnivore's Dilemma

Fonte: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.”

Fonte: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.”

Michael Pollan livro The Omnivore's Dilemma

Fonte: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals