"A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule."
-Michael Pollan
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"The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.“
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"People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue."
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"Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand."
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"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."
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"In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn."
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