{"product_id":"food-politics-9780520275966","title":"Food Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this title, the author reveals how the competition really works and how it affects our health. It illustrates food politics in action: watered-down government dietary advice, diet supplements promoted as if they were First Amendment rights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Combining the scientific background of a researcher and the skills of a teacher, [Nestle] has made a complex subject easy to understand.\" * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e“The ironically named Nestle does for the entire food industry what Eric Schlosser did for fast food in \u003ci\u003eFast Food Nation\u003c\/i\u003e—a scathing and sometimes shocking expose of an industry we have taken for granted. This award-winning book looks at how the sheer volume of food available in North America has created questionable marketing practices, to say the least.” * Toronto Globe \u0026amp; Mail *\u003cbr\u003e“A solid, important treatise.  Taking the health effects as given, it details how food companies undermine public health and infiltrate institutions that are sworn to protect it.  If, after Marxism’s demise, you need evidence of the pervasive complicity of government in the amassing of wealth by a few to the detriment of the many, look no further.” * American Prospect *\u003cbr\u003e“Nestle’s meticulous, nuanced account traces the connections between North America’s immense agricultural surpluses, industrial foods like infant formula and Hamburger Helper, the supersizing of fast foods, and declines in public health.” * Women's Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e“In a country that is being targeted by a food industry that will make and market any product that sells, even to children, regardless of its nutritional value or its effect on health, \u003ci\u003eFood Politics\u003c\/i\u003e is required reading.” * Bloomsbury Review *\u003cbr\u003e“Nestle is simply one of the nation’s smartest and most influential authorities on nutrition and food policy.” * Sun-Sentinel *\u003cbr\u003e“Nestle covers more ground, wields greater authority, and has concrete, tough-minded recommendations for change.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e * Seattle Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFood Politics \u003c\/i\u003eis a book that deserves to change national and international attitudes, as Carson's \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring \u003c\/i\u003edid in the 1960s.\" * American Journal of Clinical Nutrition *\u003cbr\u003e\"Nestle berates the food companies for going to great lengths to protect what she calls \"techno-foods\" by confusing the public regarding distinctions among foods, supplements, and drugs, thus making it difficult for federal regulators to guard the public. She urges readers to inform themselves, choose foods wisely, demand ethical behavior and scientific honesty, and promote better cooperation among industry and government. This provocative work will cause quite a stir in food industry circles. Highly recommended.\"  * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"In her exquisitely researched book, Nestle details how the food industry’s tendrils have reached into every aspect of nutritionists’ work and are suffocating its public health goals. \u003ci\u003eFood Politics\u003c\/i\u003e provides rich case studies of how the industry infiltrates nutrition departments at universities and federal agencies and intermingles unabashedly with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).\" * Health Education \u0026amp; Behavior *\u003cbr\u003e\"In the tradition of Upton Sinclair, Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan, Nestle exposes the dark side of food. A life-giving substance, food can kill us, and Nestle never loses sight of the seriousness of this issue throughout the text.\" * Food Anthropology *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFood Politics\u003c\/i\u003e is a well-researched, thoughtful, and angry book. Nestle is most eloquent in her analyses of the relationship between government and industry. . . .  An invaluable addition to the literature.” * Technology and Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Michael Pollan\u003cbr\u003e Preface to the 2007 Edition First Edition\u003cbr\u003e Introduction:\u003cbr\u003e The Food Industry and “Eat More”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE\u003cbr\u003e UNDERMINING DIETARY ADVICE\u003cbr\u003e 1. From “Eat More” to “Eat Less,” 1900–1990\u003cbr\u003e 2. Politics versus Science: Opposing the Food Pyramid, 1991–1992\u003cbr\u003e 3. “Deconstructing” Dietary Advice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO\u003cbr\u003e WORKING THE SYSTEM\u003cbr\u003e 4. Influencing Government: Food Lobbies and Lobbyists\u003cbr\u003e 5. Co-opting Nutrition Professionals\u003cbr\u003e 6. Winning Friends, Disarming Critics\u003cbr\u003e 7. Playing Hardball: Legal and Not\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART THREE\u003cbr\u003e EXPLOITING KIDS, CORRUPTING SCHOOLS\u003cbr\u003e 8. Starting Early: Underage Consumers\u003cbr\u003e 9. Pushing Soft Drinks: “Pouring Rights”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART FOUR\u003cbr\u003e DEREGULATING DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS\u003cbr\u003e 10. Science versus Supplements: “A Gulf of Mutual Incomprehension”\u003cbr\u003e 11. Making Health Claims Legal: The Supplement Industry’s War with the FDA\u003cbr\u003e 12. Deregulation and Its Consequences\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART FIVE\u003cbr\u003e INVENTING TECHNO-FOODS\u003cbr\u003e 13. Go Forth and Fortify\u003cbr\u003e 14. Beyond Fortification: Making Foods Functional\u003cbr\u003e 15. Selling the Ultimate Techno-Food: Olestra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion:\u003cbr\u003e The Politics of Food Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Afterword:\u003cbr\u003e Food Politics: Five Years Later and Beyond\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Issues in Nutrition and Nutrition Research\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables\u003cbr\u003e List of Figures\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402862338391,"sku":"9780520275966","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520275966.jpg?v=1730481710","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/food-politics-9780520275966","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}