Food Politics

Winner of the James Beard Foundation Literary Award "[From] one of the influential framers of the modern food movement."—The New York Times The 25th-anniversary edition of Marion Nestle’s seminal classic reveals how the food industry uses marketing, science, and political power to shape what we eat—and why it matters for our health. We all witness—in advertising and on supermarket shelves—the fierce competition for our food dollars. In her engrossing classic, Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how that competition really works, how the food industry plays politics, and what this means for our health. Celebrated for its accessible and balanced account, Food Politics forever changed the way we understand food industry marketing practices. For this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Nestle has written a new preface and afterword that further expose how food companies spend vast sums on marketing, enlist scientific experts, and lobby policy makers to protect sales of their products. Nestle’s pathbreaking work illuminates more clearly than ever how the food industry influences our food choices and health.