Michael Pollan

Pollan, Michael Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Nothing Like Chocolate

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Deep Green

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself - Author, The Omnivore's Dilemma
• Play in Full Screen PolyCultures: Food Where We Live

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Vanishing of the Bees

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - Author, In Defense of Food
• Play in Full Screen The Botany of Desire

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Earth 2100

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself - Author In Defense of Food
• Play in Full Screen Nourish: Food + Community

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Food Fight

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Killer at Large

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself, Author, The Omnivores Dilemma
• Play in Full Screen Food, Inc.

  2008, role: miscellaneous crew
• Play in Full Screen Food, Inc.

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself - Author, 'The Omnivore's Dilemma'
• Play in Full Screen King Corn

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself - University of California

Famous quotes by Michael Pollan:

"I don't think it's a journalist's job to issue shopping lists or policy descriptions. We're supposed to show people how the world is, to give them the tools they need to make good decisions as citizens or consumers. Depending on what your values are — the environment, your health, animal welfare — the answers are going to be different for every person."

"Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north."

"A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule."

"The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway"

"The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society."

"I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist."

"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."

"Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you."

"The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around."

"My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me."

"The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway."

"People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue."

"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."

"Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food."

"There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with."

"Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can."

"When you go to the grocery store, you find that the cheapest calories are the ones that are going to make you the fattest - the added sugars and fats in processed foods."

"Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about."

"The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies."

"Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat."

Michael Pollan