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Title: Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture) by Marion Nestle ISBN: 0-520-22465-5 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 04 March, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.96 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Stunning!
Comment: This book is like an atom bomb on the rapcious and irresponsible food industy- with its massive pushing of high calorie, high profit junk food all in the name of $$$
I am suprised it even got published because it is so utterly devastating to such a powerful plank of American capitalism.
Great and courageous work Marion Nestle!!
Rating: 4
Summary: More About Politics Than Food
Comment: If you want to know about the ins and outs of food science or the food industry, this book will be disappointing. But if you're interested in how the food induatry (agriculture, food processing, retail and restaurant) influence and dominate our governments' approach to food, this book is the one for you.
Dr. Nestle, a nutrition scientist, has spent years consulting with the USDA and other government agencies dealing with food. She had a lot to do with creation and publication of the famous "food pyramid."
In this work, she was subject to relentless lobbying by food companies determined to prevent the government from recommending that people eat less of their products. They sent whole armies of lobbyists, not just to Washington, but to state governements, universities, and anywhere else they could influence food science.
They donate money to universities, fund studies of their own, give gifts to legislators and woo regulators. They frequently get their own corporate representatives appointed to regulatory and administrative positions. As a result, they have watered down or changed any attempt to advise eating less fat, less sugar, or less of anything.
I think the great value of this book is revealing how our government works. This is not just about food. Every facet of government is subject to corporate influence and domination. You can really see this in the insurance companies' ability to derail health insurance reform, and the drug companies' blocking drug purchases from foreign countries.
Perhaps we can take our government back, step by step. Food Politics is a good teaching tool for those who want to fight back.
David Spero RN...
Rating: 4
Summary: The other side of the food inustry...
Comment: A good read! All you thought you knew about the food industry but didn't want to believe. It contains very apparent, detailed accounts of how big money food conglomerates steer legislation and deregulation of the food industry and marketplace to sell you processed junk in healthy packages. If you believe the food industry is researching products in your best interest, to make food safer and genuinely more nutritious, read this book! The book, along with a few others pertaining to similar topics, restores some bit of hope that there are indeed a few people out there that value good food and nutrition, and are wise to the fact that good nutrition doesn't come in glossy cellophane packages stamped with health claims touting unbelievable 'magic bullet' statements targeted to those with limited understanding of nutrition and health.
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Title: Fat Land : How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser ISBN: 0618164723 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 14 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser ISBN: 0060938455 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Food Fight : The Inside Story of the Food Industry, America's Obesity Crisis, and What We Can Do About It by Kelly D. Brownell, Katherine Battle Horgen ISBN: 0071402500 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 07 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (California Studies in Food and Culture, 5) by Marion Nestle ISBN: 0520232925 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 03 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin by Ellen Ruppel Shell ISBN: 0871138565 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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