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At a certain point, a point already long past, the farmer’s attempt at the perfect control of nature evolved into the control of the farmer by the corporations that promoted that dream in the first place. It is only because that dream is so elusive that the control of farmers by its merchants became so inescapable.

— Michael Pollan The Botany of Desire (2001)

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Sometimes the cause of civilization is best served by a hard stare into the soul of its opposite.

The Botany of Desire (2001)

The most important thing about your diet is who cooks it, a human or a corporation.

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You're better off eating the real thing in moderation than binging on 'lite' food products that pack less flavor but more chemical additives.

Food Rules: An Eater's Manual (2009)

The industrial animal factory offers a nightmarish glimpse of what capitalism is capable of in the absence of any moral or regulatory constraint whatsoever.

The family meal is the nursery of democracy.

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