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Michael Pollan es un escritor, periodista, activista y profesor de Práctica de No-Ficción en la Universidad de Harvard.[1]​[2]​ Es también profesor de periodismo en la Escuela de Postgrado de la Universidad de California en Berkeley.[3]​ Wikipedia  

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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 libro 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 libro The Botany of Desire

Fuente: 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 libro The Botany of Desire

Fuente: 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 libro The Botany of Desire

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

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

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Michael Pollan libro The Botany of Desire

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