All Michael Pollan Quotes
The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.
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The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
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The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.
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This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.
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In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.
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I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.
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In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.
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Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
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The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.
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The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies.
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Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.
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There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.
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Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat.
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The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
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I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.
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