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FOOD POLITICS: HOW THE FOOD INDUSTRY

INFLUENCES NUTRITION AND HEALTH

“Anyone who cares about what they put in their body ought to read [Food Politics] carefully and think long and hard about the choices. Your life just might depend on it.” —Newsday

“ ‘Voting with [our] forks’ for a healthier society, Nestle shows us, is within our power.” —Los Angeles Times

“Educating the public is a start, and Food Politics is 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.” —The Nation

“Nestle has written a provocative and highly readable book arguing that America’s agribusiness lobby has stifled the government’s regulatory power, helped create a seasonless and regionless diet, and hampered the government’s ability to offer sound, scientific nutritional advice.” —The Economist

“What a book this is! Of course we have always suspected and known some of the truth, but never in such bold detail! In this fascinating book we learn how powerful, intrusive, influential, and invasive big industry is and how alert we must constantly be to prevent it from influencing not only our personal 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

“Nestle is in a unique position to have seen firsthand how food purveyors, government and academicians end up as bedfellows when it comes to suggesting to people what and how much to eat.” —Eating Well

“Food Politics . . . has nudged [Nestle’s] argument into the mainstream of consideration—not quite fodder for an installment of Oprah, but no longer the heady stuff of National Public Radio, either. And that has some restaurant-industry officials more than a little upset.” —Restaurant Business

“Nestle tells us a series of engaging and surprising stories and gives us a lively presentation of the politics, as she perceives them, of advice on diet and health during the past century . . . This book is thought-provoking, and I recommend it.” —The New England Journal of Medicine

“Some of Nestle’s shocking revelations about the behavior of Big Food will shock only those who are easily shocked; others will be welcomed less as news than as occasions for those so inclined to make public displays of moral outrage.” —London Review of Books

“Food Politics is written to interest and be accessible to a wide range of readers, whether they have training in nutrition or not. The book has achieved this objective by keeping jargon to a minimum, explaining terms as needed, and being written in a lively, engaging style.” —Journal of Nutrition Education

“A real page turner, this book will give you metaphoric indigestion—unless, of course, you believe that McDonald’s offers ‘a nutritious addition to a balanced diet’ (as one U.S. Senator declared in 1977).” —Natural Health

“Regardless of who is to blame for the obesity epidemic, Nestle has laid down a challenge that won’t easily go away. It will be interesting to see how the food industry responds.” —Food Chemical News

“The case examples are remarkable and the value here is in Nestle’s clear, thorough documentation, which provides missing pieces in the puzzle of poor nutrition in a country where food is all too abundant.” —The Lancet

“This superbly documented book encourages readers to think about what they eat and to ask, who profits?” —Gambero Rosso

“Food Politics is an academically scrupulous account of how the food industry in the United States controls government nutrition policies. It’s important and eye-opening reading for anyone