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„Iss nichts, was Deine Urgroßmutter nicht als Nahrung erkennen würde. In unseren Supermärkten gibt es eine Menge Lebensmittel, die Deine Vorfahren nicht als solche erkennen würden. Meide sie.“

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„Nur die menschliche Arroganz und der Umstand, dass das Leben der Pflanzen sich in einer viel langsameren Zeitdimension abspielt, hält uns davon ab, die Intelligenz und den Erfolg der Pflanzen anzuerkennen.“

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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.”

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Michael Pollan buch The Omnivore's Dilemma

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (New York: The Penguin Press, 2006), p. 318.

“Nutrition science is where surgery was in about 1650, you know, really interesting and promising, but would you want to have them operate on you yet? I don’t think so.”

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[In Defense of Food: Author, Journalist Michael Pollan on Nutrition, Food Science and the American Diet, 2008-02-13, Democracy Now!, http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/13/in_defense_of_food_author_journalist, 2009-04-15]

“Home cooking is good for you, and I eat out less. But that's the least of it. What has surprised me is how stimulating it is. How satisfying. You learn a lot about plants and animals. You begin to recognise your place in the world.”

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[Michael Pollan: Why the family meal is crucial to civilisation, Sat 25 May 2013, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/may/25/michael-pollan-family-meal-civilisation, 2018-05-23]

“There are a lot more roses and tulips around today, in a lot more places, then there were before people took an interest in them. For a flower the path to world domination passes through humanity’s ever-shifting ideals of beauty.”

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Michael Pollan buch The Botany of Desire

Quelle: The Botany of Desire (2001), Chapter 2 (p. 79)

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

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Michael Pollan buch The Botany of Desire

Quelle: The Botany of Desire (2001), Chapter 1, “Desire: Sweetness / Plant: The Apple” (p. 41)

“Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.”

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Michael Pollan buch The Botany of Desire

Introduction “The Human Bumblebee” (p. xxi)
The Botany of Desire (2001)