Clark Wolf is the host and organizer. The panel—on food and politics—includes me, talking about my memoir, Slow Cooked, An Unexpected Life in Food Politics; Chloe Sorvino, author of Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat; Alex Prud’homme, author of Dinner With The President: Food, Politics and the History of Breaking Bread at the White House; and Tanya Holland, author of Tanya Holland’s California Soul. Free, but register here. It starts at 5:00 p.m. and lasts one hour.
by Marion Nestle
Feb
9
2009
Pet food recall settlement: at last?
The courts have finally approved the settlement agreement for the class action lawsuit against pet food makers selling products contaminated with melamine. This means that the payouts will begin sometime this year, maybe. Legal wheels grind slowly, it seems (or maybe this isn’t slow?).