March 1, 2010
"Is a steak from a feedlot steer that consumed a diet of corn, various industrial waste products, antibiotics, and hormones still a “whole food”? I’m not so sure. The steer has itself been raised on a Western diet, and that diet has rendered its meat substantially different -in the type and amount of fat in it as well as its vitamin content- from the beef our ancestors ate. The steer’s industrial upbringing has also rendered its meat so cheap that we’re likely to eat more of it more often than our ancestors ever would have."

— Pollan, Michael. In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Paperback edition, page 143. Penguin Books.

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February 23, 2010
"Most nutritional science involves studying one nutrient at a time, a seemingly unavoidable approach that even nutritionists who do it will tell you is deeply flawed. ‘The problem with nutrient-by-nutrient nutrition science,’ points out Marion Nestle, a New York University nutritionist, ‘is that it takes the nutrient out of the context of food, the food out of the context of the diet, and the diet out of the context of the lifestyle.’"

— Pollan, Michael. In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Paperbook edition, page 62. Penguin Books.

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