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In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning,

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel – it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn. – Michael Pollan

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The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms. – Michael Pollan

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I mean, were really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification. – Michael Pollan

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