Food Politics

This page is in four major sections: Print interviews (by year), Audio, Video, and Controversies (from critics).  Scroll down to find them.

FAO, Rome, October 2009 (photo: U.S. Department of State)

Print Interviews

2010

July 15 Interview with Maria Rodale on Huffington Post

July 9, 13 Annie Corrigan of Earth Eats did two interviews, part 1 on July 9 and part 2 on July 13

Summer 2010: Q and A with Donna Stokes, World Ark (Heifer International):10.

April 1: Interview with Katherine Hobson of U.S. News about the latest research on dietary fats.

February 22: Interview with Lori Bongiorno on Yahoo!Green about the safety of bagged salads.

February 19: Interview about appearance at the Louisiana State University School of Public Health.

2009

April 13  Interview with Obama Foodorama about what the Obamas should feed their new puppy

March 15  Chat with participants on Firedoglake Book Salon, hosted by Christy Hardin Smith

March 12  Interview with Beth Bader on Green Options: Eat Drink Better, “Food safety: ask the expert”

January 22   Interview with Lori Bongiorno on Yahoo! Green: “Eat safe food:  follow these tips

2008

November 23 Interview with Jane Brody, New York Times, about home cooking

November 4 Interview with Time magazine about the implications of the pet food recall for melamine in China

October 17 Interview with Adam Voiland of US News and World Report about 10 things the food industry doesn’t want you to know

September 26 Interview with Mother Jones, September/October 2008 issue

August 26 interview with Jonathan, who blogs at WastedFood.com.

July 7, Interview with Jennifer Salerno about “green” food choices in the online version of Food and Wine.

June 30 Interview with Claudette Vaughan on Abolitionist-Online about Food Politics.

March 20 Interview with Amy Ramos in Miller-McCune magazine.

March 12 Interview with Adriana Velez on www.foodbuzz.com.

January 20, 2008 Interview with Lori Dorfman in the January issue of Health Promotion Practice.

2008: other events that year

• February 12 Kansas City: Kansas City Healthy Kids conference (keynote slide presentation)
• Women’s and Gender Studies Programs (lecture) See Toledo Blade account
• March 5 Santa Barbara, Q and A with Morgan Spurlock, Orfalea Fund Conference on school food
• Memorial lecture. See interview in Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
• April 4 Wesleyan, CT, Shasha seminar for human concerns (keynote–and here are the Wesleyan slides)
• June 3 Copenhagen, Nordic Nutrition Conference (plenary). Here’s the pdf of my slides. And the lecture is posted on Morten Strunge Meyers’ blog site as well as on YouTube.
• June 5 NYU, Fales library panel on bottled water. See report from panelist Maureen Clancy. These sessions usually are videorecorded.
• August 26 Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, 595 Market, 2nd Floor, book interview with Davia Nelson, Kitchen Sisters (5:30 p.m.)
• August 30 Slow Food Nation, San Francisco, panel on Building a New Food System: Policy and Planning (scroll down to get to video for this panel)
• November 14 New York, Food Theater Project with Anna Lappe. This follows a performance of Milk n’ Honey at the Lightbox, 80 Greenwich at Rector. And here’s a photo from the event.
• November 12Panel discussion on the farm bill, Wagner School of Public Service, Puck Building (Lafayette at Houston), 2nd floor. Here is Wild Green Yonder’s take on it.

2007

• Interview with my avatar on food issues with Jimbo Hoyer on Second Life 10/11/07
• Interview with Marion Nestle by Shahar Smooha (in Hebrew). Also in English translation.  Haaretz 9/23/07
• Web MD interview about organic choices 8/10/07
• Food Industry magazine (Netherlands): Interview with Lucien Joppen (in English) 8/07
• Claims Are Like Pandora’s Box Elsevier Voedingsmiddelen Industrie (http://www.evmi.nl/) 8/07
• Why Are We Fat? The Courier Journal 4/11/07
• Marion Nestle: The Nutrition Guru Culinate 3/27/07
• Nutrition Expert to Speak Tonight at Ithaca College The Ithaca Journal 3/27/07
• The Basics; For Cats and Dogs, Life Is a Bowl Of The New York Times 3/25/07
• Wellness Warriors Take Action Nation’s Restaurant News 1/29/07
• Food Critic meatingplace magazine 1/07

2006

• Dålig Kost en Politisk Fråga (Swedish) Svenska Dagbladet 11/25/06
• Sorting Through the Confusion in a Bag of Spinach Newsday.com 10/4/06
• Supermarket sleuth.  Interview with Katharine Mieszkowski of Salon.com, 6-12-06
• Conversation with Marion Nestle DefendingScience.org 5/12/06
• Interview with Marion Nestle PotreroHillParents.org 5/12/06
• The Skinny on Organic Food AARP Bulletin 5/06
• The Politics of Obesity: Interview with Dr Nestle Cambridge Medicine 2006
• Fighting the Battle of the Bulge Rotman Magazine Winter 2006

2001 to 2005

• Food Democracy and Healthy Choices: An Interview with Marion Nestle Bioneers 2006
• Manger: Simplicité et Modération d’Abord! Réseau Proteus 6/05
• Food Politics Q&A with Marion Nestle University of California School of Public Health Spring 2004
• Frontline: Diet Wars PBS 4/8/04
• Marion Nestle on Obesity: “Industry Talks but Doesn’t Walk” Food Engineering & Ingredients 4/04
• Snapple Beware: She’s the Gadfly in the Food Industry’s Soup The New York Observer 9/29/03
• Food Politics Raises Provocative Questions Food Chemical News 5/20/02
• An ‘Eat More’ Message for a Fattened America The New York Times 2/19/02
• Chewing Out the Food Industry Fortune Magazine 2/18/02
• Complicating the Simple Message of ‘Eat Less’ Nutrition Week 2/18/02
• The Politics Behind an Overweight America: Talking with Dr. Marion Nestle GlobalRPh.com 8/21/01

Audio Interviews

• August 1, 2010 Interview with Guy Raz on NPR All Things Considered, on raw milk
• August 13, 2010 Interview with Brian Lehrer on NPR about listeners’ meals
• July 3, 2010 Interview about food politics on the Kathleen Show
• June 27, 2010 Heritage Radio  interview with Patrick Martins and Katy Kiefer
• June 15, 2010 China Radio International
• April 3, 2010, Good Food interview with Evan Kleinman about agave.
• March 10, 2010, The Kathleen Show on food politics.
• March 6, 2010, Good Food interview with Evan Kleinman about soda taxes.
• February 26, 2010 Podcast of talk to the Girls Night Out series at the New York Academy of Sciences
• January 20, 2010  Interview with NPR’s Takeaway on Mayor Bloomberg’s salt initiative.
• January 19, 2009  Interview about food politics on Crop to Cuisine, Dov Hirsch, KVNU radio, Boulder CO
• May 24, 2009  Interview with Sound Medicine about high fructose corn syrup
• April 13, 2009 Interview with HearSay’s Cathy Lewis about food safety (with FDA’s David Acheson), WHRV-FM/WHRO Norfolk VA.
• September 24, 2008 Interview with Public Radio International on food safety (melamine and Chinese infant formula)
• September 22, 2008  Interview on WBUR Here and Now, Boston, on food safety
• July 1, 2008 Interview with All Things Considered on NPR about New York City’s trans-fat ban.
• December 12, 2007 radio interview HealthTalk Live: How safe is our food? (click on December 12 entry)
• September 15, 2007 Dishing Up Nutrition radio interview on food politics (interviewer is Darlene Kvist).
• September 6, 2007 Canadian Broadcasting Corp: CBC Calling. Interview with Chef Michael Smith.
• September 5, 2007 Scientific American Podcast with Steve Mirsky. Because I am a Paulette Goddard professor at NYU, he sends along an article he wrote about Einstein’s experience with the gorgeous movie star.
• March 7, 2008  Homeland Security Daily Wire, Interview about food safety
• February 6, 2008  Biologique Foods radio, two podcast interviews with TJ Harrington in Bloomington, MN, one on food politics and the other on what’s in your food.
• January 16, 2008  Radio interview: Dynamic Health” host Allart, Vancouver, B.C.’s Co-op Radio, CFRO 102.7 FM.
• NPR Science Friday, panel on the farm bill with Michael Pollan and Sandor Ellix Katz 8/10/07
• Global Public Radio, Wake Up America interview with Tina Volpe  8/13/07
• Splendid Table radio interview 6/9/07
• Is Feeding a Family on Food Stamps Feasible? Weekend Edition, National Public Radio 5/19/07
• E. Coli Outbreak Was Wake-Up Call for Food Safety Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio 10/23/06
• When To Go Organic The Intelligent Body 9/25/06
• Nutritionist Tackles Serious Business of ‘What to Eat’ All Things Considered 6/9/06
• James Beard: A 20th Century Revolution in American Foods The Food Section 5/10/05
• Under Fire The Leonard Lopate Show, National Public Radio 1/18/05
• Fast Food Nation The Leonard Lopate Show, National Public Radio 5/4/04
• Nutrigenomics Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio 12/26/03
• Mad Cow Disease Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio 12/26/03
• USDA to Revamp Food Pyramid All Things Considered, National Public Radio 9/11/03
• Sugar Industry Takes on the World Health Organization Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio 4/24/03
• Check Your Labels The Leonard Lopate Show, National Public Radio 4/22/03
• The Politics of Food: The Food Industry Spends $33 Billion in Advertising This Year, While Over One Quarter of U.S. Adults Are Obese Democracy Now 7/26/02

Video

• May 7, 2010 Fox and Friends interview about chocolate infant formula
• March 3, 2010 CNN interview with Maggie Lake about organics
• February 13, 2010 Food writers’ conference panel on academic food writing.
• January 22, 2010 Interview with The Big Think.
• August 6 ’09  CBS interview on Smart Choices program
• June ’09    Visit to the Brooklyn Food Coop with Joel Tomar Levin (scroll down to see video)
• June ’09 (possibly)  Office interview with Consumer (something unreadable) about current issues.  This is a copressed mp4 file.
• May 1, ’09  Video of lecture at Gel conference
• CNN broadcast of “Fed Up: America’s Killer Diet“.  The transcript is also online 11/29/08
• Interview with Laura Flinders (and Arun Gupta and Peter Hoffman), Grit TV. It’s on how to eat well without going broke, and starts with a Monty Python clip on Spam 11/26/08
• Interview with Meet the Bloggers about food politics (done via computer camera) 11/21/08
• Video interview with CBS about the effects of the economic downturn on food choices 11/20/08
• CBS News interview about high fructose corn syrup 10/2/08
• Video interview (snippets) with CBS5, KPIX on melamine in Chinese infant formula 9/29/08
• CBS Evening News interview on genetically modified food labeling, Figuring Out What’s In Your Food 5/11/08
• Charlie Rose science series: obesity and nutrition (with Paul Nurse, David Ludwig, Rudy Leibel, and Gina Kolata) 6/25/07
• Google staff lecture, Mountain View, CA. (see hour-long Video or 8-minute edit on YouTube) 5/8/07
• What to Eat: Personal Responsibility versus Social Responsibility University of Kentucky 3/13/07
• How to Buy Green Produce TreeHuggerTV.com 1/17/07
• How to Find Green Fish TreeHuggerTV.com 9/26/06
• Interview with Charlie Rose about What to Eat 7/13/06
• How to Buy Green Milk TreeHuggerTV.com 7/10/06
• Marion Nestle Discusses What to Eat AOL: Diet & Fitness Coach 2006
• Town Hall Meeting Webcast Berkeley 4/13/06
• The Politics of Obesity Prevention: Personal Responsibility versus Public Health The University of Minnesota School of Public Health 9/18/04
• The Politics of Food and Nutrition UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine 2/8/04
• Featured in the award winning documentary Super Size Me: Think about how food is marketed, , How much influence does the food industry have on government?

Controversies

The Amazon.com Debate:

• Sheldon M Rampton’s Public Review – Amazon.com 2/27/02
• New Nutrition Book Choking on Bad Science – Fox News 2/22/02

The Threatened Lawsuit from the Sugar Association of America:

• Letter from the Attorney – Sugar Association 3/27/02
• Response to the Sugar Association – Marion Nestle 4/5/02

The Consumer-Choice Debate

• Lions And Bulls And Bears, Oh My – ConsumerFreedom.com 3/15/07
• Brownell K, Nestle M. Are You Responsible for Your Own Weight? Con: Not if Blaming the Victim Is Just an Excuse to Let Industry off the Hook. – Time June 7, 2004:113.
• Behind the “Obesity Epidemic” (Part Two of Two) – ConsumerFreedom.com 4/18/02
• The Big Food Tax – National Review 4/3/02