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A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.


Michael Pollan


#convinced #great #growing #increasingly #influential

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.


Michael Pollan


#crop #farmers #greedy #tell #will

My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.


Michael Pollan


#food #good #good food #into #lot

Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.


Michael Pollan


#always #anyway #been #direct #direct experience

Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.


Michael Pollan


#critical #done #even #extensively #fairness

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.


Michael Pollan


#circle #consideration #eager #extend #factory

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.


Michael Pollan


#genetic #i #making #mean #modification

I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.


Kay Redfield Jamison


#mood-swings #psychiatry #funny

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.


Michael Pollan


#been #cell #concerns #england #general

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.


Michael Pollan


#actually #learn #little #me #remarkably






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