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Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Quotes: Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again.
         

Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again.


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



Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share.

Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share.



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Since 1985 our [American's] consumption of all added sugars- cane, beet, HFCS, glucose, honey, maple syrup, whatever- has climbed from 128 pounds to 159 pounds per person.

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Americans today spend less on food, as a percentage of disposable income (10%), than any other industrialized nation... meaning that we could afford to spend more on food if we chose to.

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