Marion Nestle leads us through the maze of food industry interests and influences, vividly illustrating food politics in action: watered-down government dietary advice, schools pushing soft drinks, diet supplements promoted as if they were First Amendment rights. When it comes to food production and consumption, she clearly shows how strategic decisions are inevitably driven by company bottom lines-not science, not common sense, and certainly not health.
"Nestle examines what she sees as the industry's manipulation of America's eating habits while enumerating many conflicts of interest among nutritional authorities. Combining the scientific background of a researcher and the skills of a teacher, she has made a complex subject easy to understand."
-New York Times
"[An] excellent introduction to how decisions are made in Washington-and their effects on consumers. Let's hope people take more notice of it than they do of the dietary guidelines."
-Nation
"In this fascinating book we learn how powerful, intrusive, in.uential, and invasive big industry is and how alert we must constantly be to prevent it from in.uencing not only our own personal nutritional choices, but those of our government agencies.Marion Nestle has presented us with a courageous and masterful exposé."
-Julia Child
"Food politics underlie all politics in the United States.There is no industry more important to Americans, more fundamentally linked to our well-being and the future well-being of our children. Nestle reveals how corporate control of the nation's food system limits our choices and threatens our health. If you eat, you should read this book."
-Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation
"Food Politics is a book that deserves to change national and international attitudes, as Carson's Silent Spring did in the 1960s."
-American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
"Nestle examines what she sees as the industry's manipulation of America's eating habits while enumerating many conflicts of interest among nutritional authorities. Combining the scientific background of a researcher and the skills of a teacher, she has made a complex subject easy to understand."
-New York Times
"[An] excellent introduction to how decisions are made in Washington-and their effects on consumers. Let's hope people take more notice of it than they do of the dietary guidelines."
-Nation
"In this fascinating book we learn how powerful, intrusive, in.uential, and invasive big industry is and how alert we must constantly be to prevent it from in.uencing not only our own personal nutritional choices, but those of our government agencies.Marion Nestle has presented us with a courageous and masterful exposé."
-Julia Child
"Food politics underlie all politics in the United States.There is no industry more important to Americans, more fundamentally linked to our well-being and the future well-being of our children. Nestle reveals how corporate control of the nation's food system limits our choices and threatens our health. If you eat, you should read this book."
-Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation
"Food Politics is a book that deserves to change national and international attitudes, as Carson's Silent Spring did in the 1960s."
-American Journal of Clinical Nutrition