“What’s good for the climate is good for your diet.”. “As a culture we got fat on the low fat craze.”. “Ironically the healthiest food in the supermarket doesn’t need nutritional labels.”. Here’s a roundup of Michael Pollan’s best quotes of the evening. Regardless of how we all ‘know’ how to eat healthy, it’s always good to hear again. Recently, even major fast food chains like A&W adopted the Beyond Meat burger, and even innovated their own plant-based breakfast sausage! Now in 2019, with plant-based diets going so strong that has inspired a new generation of vegan influencers and athletes, Pollan’s work that was once novel has become mainstream-a much-needed positive shift in how we view food. It’s been well over a decade since Pollan published his household titles such as, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “In Defense of Food” where he advised readers to “Eat Food. Presenting a collection of Michael Pollan’s quotations on omnivore, lifestyle, fruits, plants, happiness, inspiration, community, sharing, challenge, ignorance, life, love, obesity, malnutrition and diabetes.A while back, the University of British Columbia hosted a talk with renowned food journalist Michael Pollan in Vancouver as part of its UBC Connects series. We have excerpted his quotes from his speeches, writings, books, essays, interviews and lectures. Pollan has also delivered many speeches and given several interviews on different subjects. Pollan has also been awarded the ‘Washburn Award’ by the Boston Museum of Science for his efforts towards making science more popular among the masses. On the other hand, Pollan has also been a regular contributor of essays to some of the leading publications in the world like ‘TIME’, ‘The New Yorker’ and ‘New York Times’. Some of his other well-known books include ‘Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation’, ‘A Place of My Own’, ‘In Defense of Food’, ‘Food Rules: An Eater’s Manuel’ and ‘The Botany of Desire’ among others. 
His most renowned book is ‘The Omnivore’s Dilemma’, published in 2006, in which he deals with the subject of how human beings go about the process of acquiring their food.
Pollan studied English at Bennington College and then went on to acquire a post graduate degree from Columbia University, before embarking on a career as a writer, essayist and journalism teacher. Michael Pollan is a journalism professor at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, author, and activist.
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