Logo
Quote by Michael Pollan
For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle o

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

Other quotes by Michael Pollan

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

Category:
Food
Author
Michael Pollan
Read Quote

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

Category:
Food
Author
Michael Pollan
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
History
category

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history. – Pierre Bayle, Historical and Critical Dictionary

Category:
History

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene. – Kenneth Scott Latourette

Category:
History

A year is an eternity in politics – though less than a moment in history. – Eliot Spitzer

Category:
History

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once! – Camille Paglia

Category:
History

Random Quotes

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like the shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground. – Johnson

Category:
Badminton

Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional miracle. – Author Unknown

Category:
Golf

This mornings scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land. – Du Fu

Category:
Morning

We teach people that they upset themselves. We cant change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today. – Albert Ellis

Category:
Change