Book Review
Food Politics

By Marion Nestle
Reviewed by Bill London
from the December 2003 Newsletter

None of the changes in America’s health, nutrition, and food industry in the last several decades has happened accidentally.

The phenomenal growth of junk food consumption, the rise in childhood obesity and obesity-linked disease, the lack of nutritional leadership by the federal authorities, the replacement of family farms by corporate agribusiness—all those changes and more are the result of the politics of food in our society.

And the best and most complete analysis of this tragic scene has been written by a professor of human nutrition at New York University, Marion Nestle. Her book, Food Politics, published by the University of California Press in 2002, dissects the food industry, probing for all the tentacles of corruption that wind through government, industry, and higher education.

If you care about human health and equitable distribution of our abundance, read this book. Prepare to get angry. Nestle does not hide the truth. She explains how federal regulators are bought off and how university researchers are co-opted. She tells it like it is.

This book is available at BookPeople and at the public library in Moscow.

Bill London edits this newsletter and wishes that the amazing progressive victory in the latest Moscow City Council election would be duplicated nationwide.

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