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Book: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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  1. Michael Pollan _ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A

    But the western mind can't bear an opt- out option. we're going to have to re-fight the Battle of the Little Bighorn to preserve the right to opt-out, or your grandchildren and mine will have no choice but to eat amalgamated, irradiated, genetically prostituted, bar-coded, adulterated fecal spam from the centralized processing conglomerate." Joel Salatin
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  2. Michael Pollan _ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A

    you know what the best kind of organic certification would be? make an unannounced visit to a farm and take a good long look at the farmer's bookshelf. Because what you're feeding your emotions and thoughts is what this is really all about. the way I produce a chicken is an extension of my worldview. You can learn more about that by seeing what is sitting on my bookshelf than having me fill out a whole bunch of forms." Joel Salatin
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  3. Michael Pollan _ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A

    Eat Your View!
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  4. Michael Pollan _ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A

    Eating puts us in touch with all that we share with the other animals, and all that sets us apart. It defines us.
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  5. Michael Pollan _ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A

    {The adult human brain accounts for 2 percent of our body weight but consumes 18 percent of our energy, all of which must come from a carbohydrate.
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  6. Michael Pollan _ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A

    whenever I hear people say clean food is expensive, I tell them it's actually the cheapest food you can buy. That always gets their attention. Then I explain that with our food all of the costs are figured into the price. Society is not bearing the cost of water pollution, of antibiotic resistance, of food-borne illnesses, of crop subsidies, of subsidized oil and water-of all the hidden costs to the environment and the taxpayer that make cheap food seem cheap. No thinking person will tell you they don't care about all that. I tell them the choice is simple: You can buy honestly priced food or you can buy irresponsibly priced food.
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  7. Michael Pollan _ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A

    One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.
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  8. Michael Pollan _ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A

    More birds on a farm mean fewer insects, but most birds won't venture more than a couple hundred yards from the safety of cover. Like many species, their preferred habitat is the edge between forest and field. The biodiversity of the forest edge also helps control predators. As long as the weasels and coyotes have plenty of chipmunks and voles to eat, they're less likely to venture out and prey on the chickens.
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  9. Michael Pollan _ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A

    In nature health is the default," he pointed out. "Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.
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  10. Michael Pollan _ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A

    Claude Lévi-Strauss described the work of civilization as the process of transforming the raw into the cooked-nature into culture.
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  11. Michael Pollan _ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A

    Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?
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  12. Michael Pollan _ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A

    Could it be that the cannabinoid network is precisely the sort of adaptation that natural selection would favor in the evolution of a creature who survives by hunting? A brain chemical that sharpens the senses, narrows your mental focus, allows you to forget everything extraneous to the task at hand {including physical discomfort and the passage of time}, and makes you hungry would seem to be the perfect pharmacological tool for man the hunter. All at once it provides the motive, the reward, and the optimal mind-set for hunting.
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