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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.

— Michael Pollan Food Rules: An Eater's Manual (2009)

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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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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.

Evolution doesn’t depend on will or intention to work; it is, almost by definition, an unconscious, unwilled process.

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