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LETS ASK MARION

The publisher and the University of California Press Foundation gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Simpson Imprint in Humanities.

Praise for Marion Nestle

When journalists need to understand how an agricultural policy or nutrition guideline will affect public health, they call Marion Nestle.... Nestle has an unparalleled ability to parse USDA reports and cut through the hype to deliver sane, informed nutritional information you can use. Time

One of the most dogged chroniclers of the U.S. food industry and its politics.NPR /The Salt

Marion Nestle is a well-respected nutrition expert with degrees in molecular biology and public health nutrition, whose writing is smart and accessible. New York Magazine / The Cut

Dont be put off by the fact that shes an academic; Nestle writes in simple and informative language. Vice

Nestle has had a hand in changing how food is studied, understood, and evenmany would argueproduced. Civil Eats

[A] longtime crusader on conflicts of interest in food science. Vox

One of the key voices in food policy, nutrition, and food education in this country. The Village Voice

Nestle has made a career of letting people know things the food industry often does its best to obscure. She decodes the gobbledygook on labels and sorts out the good food-health studies from the spin. She documents the many ways the food industry drives government food policy. And she exposes the enormous amounts of money spent to market junk food to kids.... Nestle is simply one of the nations smartest and most influential authorities on nutrition and food policy. San Francisco Chronicle / SF Gate

Nestle has been an extraordinary force in shaping the way we think and talk about food.James Beard Foundation/ Huffington Post

Marion Nestle may be Americas foremost public nutrition warrior. The scientist, activist, and author has been advocating for clarity in food research and marketing for years, and has been highly critical of the food industry. Undark

Praise for Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health

A courageous and masterful expos.Julia Child

Essential reading for anyone seriously interested in addressing the nutritional dilemma facing the United States. Science

Provocative and highly readable. The Economist

An excellent introduction to how decisions are made in Washingtonand their effects on consumers. The Nation

Thought provoking.... Voting with our forks for a healthier society, Nestle shows us, is within our power. Los Angeles Times

Combining the scientific background of a researcher and the skills of a teacher, she has made a complex subject easy to understand.... Its hard to argue with Dr. Nestles point that food is above all political. New York Times

Praise for Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety

An excellent analysis of the shortcomings of the science-based approach to food. The Guardian

Provocative and consumer-friendly. Saveur

Nestle lets us in on conversations wed never otherwise hear. What we learn may be more than we can stomach.... Safe Food weighs in on all the hot topics. San Francisco Chronicle

Marion Nestle speaks in a voice that is by turns that of a consumer advocate and a scientist. The Boston Globe

Also written or edited by Marion Nestle

Nutrition in Clinical Practice (1985)

The Surgeon Generals Report on Nutrition and Health (edited with J. Michael McGinnis, 1988)

Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (2002; revised edition 2007; tenth anniversary edition 2013)

Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety (2003; revised edition 2010)

Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Nutrition and Food (edited with L. Beth Dixon, 2004)

What to Eat (2006)

Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine (2008)

Feed Your Pet Right (with Malden C. Nesheim, 2010)

Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics (with Malden C. Nesheim, 2012)

Eat, Drink, Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics (2013)

Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning) (2015)

Big Food: Critical Perspectives on the Global Growth of the Food and Beverage Industry (edited with Simon N. Williams, 2016)

Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat (2018)

California Studies in Food and Culture

Darra Goldstein, Editor

LETS ASK MARION

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE POLITICS OF FOOD, NUTRITION, AND HEALTH

MARION NESTLE

in conversation with

Kerry Trueman

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

University of California Press

Oakland, California

2020 by Marion Nestle and Kerry Trueman

Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress.

ISBN 978-0-520-34323-8 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-0-520-97469-2 (ebook)

Design and composition: Lia Tjandra

Printing: Versa Press

Manufactured in the United States of America

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

When my book Food Politics first appeared in 2002, the immediate reaction to its title was What does politics have to do with food? Years later, I am still asked that question. This book aims to answer it. To begin with, the food we consume and enjoy every day is influenced, if not determined, by the power of food companies to sell products, no matter how those products might affect our health or that of our planet. We are obliged to eat in order to obtain the nutrients and energy we need to grow, reproduce, and survive. Here, I describe why and how a substance essential for our very existence has become a touchstone for political disputes about culture, identity, social class, inequity, and power, as well as arguments about what roles are appropriate for government, private enterprise, and civil society in twenty-first-century democratic societies.

Although trained in basic science (my Berkeley doctorate was in molecular biology), I have spent most of my professional career as a public health nutritionist and food studies academic. From this perspective, todays greatest public health nutrition problemsthe Big Threeare hunger (affecting roughly a billion people globally), obesity (two billion and rising), and climate change (everybody). These share at least one cause in common: all are due in part to dysfunctional food systems, a term that encompasses everything that happens to a food from production to consumption. Food systems, in turn, depend on political and economic systems. If we want to eliminate hunger, prevent the health consequences of excessive weight gain, and protect the environment, we must understand, confront, and counter the political forces that created these problems and allow them to continue.

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