The Omnivore's Dilemma Quotes

“Our food system depends on consumers’ not knowing much about it beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner. Cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it’s a short way from not knowing who’s at the other end of your food chain to not caring- to the carelessness of both consumers and producers.”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma

“increases global warming.”
― Richie Chevat, The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat

“It’s always better to know more rather than less, even when that knowledge complicates your life.”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma

“The curse of the omnivore is that when it comes to figuring which of those things are safe to eat, he's pretty much on his own.”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat

“It seemed to me not too much to ask of a meat eater, . . that at least once in his life he take some direct responsibility for the killing on which his meat-eating depends.”
― Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma