A Goodreads user asked Michael Pollan:

What got you so interested in food, and the industry around it?

Michael Pollan I became interested in food because I am interested in nature --and because I am a gardener. If you care about the environment, eventually you will find yourself thinking about food, because our eating represents our more profound engagement with the natural. Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do, and changes the composition of species. It also profoundly shapes the condition of the soil, obviously, and less obviously, the condition of our waterways and the state of the atmosphere: the food system is responsible for about a third of green house gases. So to the extent one cares about the natural world, one will attend to eating, food and farming.

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