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
27
2017
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway (R-Texas)
The chair of the House Ag Committee , Mike Conaway from Texas, provides his votes on issues summarized in a handy chart. ‘
According to Politico, his opinion on whether SNAP should omit sugary beverages is unclear, although
He did offer his take on sugar-sweetened drinks: “Sugary drinks have a clear impact on people’s health, but if we eliminated them off the face of the earth, I don’t know that obesity rates would be any different.”
And then there’s The Food Marketing Institute , which posted this appreciative tweet:*