“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.”
Author details
Other Michael Pollan Quotes
The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.
Michael Pollan 
58% of people like this quote
The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
Michael Pollan
56% of people like this quote
The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.
Michael Pollan
56% of people like this quote
This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.
Michael Pollan
56% of people like this quote