In corn, I think Ive found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonalds meal, virtually all the carbon in it – and what we eat is mostly carbon – comes from corn. – Michael Pollan
I mean, were really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification. – Michael Pollan
The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics. – Michael Pollan
For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history. – Michael Pollan