Food Politics

Feed Your Pet Right: The Authoritative Guide to Feeding Your Dog and Cat (coming May 11, 2010)

Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim present an entertaining, informative, and objective examination of the booming pet food industry—its history, constituent companies, products, and marketing practices–with the facts pet owners need to decide for themselves how best to feed their cats or dogs.  More »

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Information about the book is on Facebook (the page is here but still under development)

Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine (2008, paperback May 2010).

Marion Nestle tells the gripping story of how, in early 2007, a few telephone calls about sick cats set off the largest recall of consumer products in U.S. history and an international crisis over the safety of imported goods ranging from food to toothpaste, tires, and toys. More »

Purchase on Amazon or UC Press.

What to Eat: An Aisle-by-Aisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating (2006, paperback 2007).

What to Eat is a book about how to make sensible food choices. Consider that today’s supermarket is ground zero for the food industry, a place where the giants of agribusiness compete for your purchases with profits—not health or nutrition—in mind. More »

Purchase on Amazon or Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Food and Nutrition (2004, and rapidly going out of print)

Taking Sides presents current issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript. The pro and con essays represent the arguments of leading scholars and commentators in their fields. More »

Purchase on Amazon or McGraw Hill.

Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety (2003, paperback 2004, revised edition June 2010)

Marion Nestle argues that ensuring safe food involves more than washing hands or cooking food to higher temperatures. It involves politics. When it comes to food safety, billions of dollars are at stake, and industry, government, and consumers collide over issues of values, economics, and political power—and not always in the public interest. More »

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Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (2002, paperback 2003, revised edition 2007)

We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing exposé, Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the competition really works and how it affects our health. More »

Purchase on Amazon or UC Press.