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Whether a five-star chef or beginning home cook, any gourmand knows
that recipes are far more than a set of instructions on how to make
a dish. They are culture-keepers as well as culture-makers, both
recording memories and fostering new ones. Organized like a
cookbook, Books That Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal is a
collection of American literature written on the theme of food:
from an invocation to a final toast, from starters to desserts. All
food literatures are indebted to the form and purpose of cookbooks,
and each section begins with an excerpt from an influential
American cookbook, progressing chronologically from the late 1700s
through the present day, including such favorites as American
Cookery, the Joy of Cooking, and Mastering the Art of French
Cooking. The literary works within each section are an extension of
these cookbooks, while the cookbook excerpts in turn become pieces
of literature—forms of storytelling and memory-making all their
own. Each section offers a delectable assortment of poetry, prose,
and essays, and the selections all include at least one tempting
recipe to entice readers to cook this book. Including writing from
such notables as Maya Angelou, James Beard, Alice B. Toklas,
Sherman Alexie, Nora Ephron, M.F.K. Fisher, and Alice Waters, among
many others, Books That Cook reveals the range of ways authors
incorporate recipes—whether the recipe flavors the story or the
story serves to add spice to the recipe. Books That Cook is a
collection to serve students and teachers of food studies as well
as any epicure who enjoys a good meal alongside a good book.
Obesity is a global public health problem of crucial importance.
Obesity rates remain high in high-income countries and are rapidly
increasing in low- and middle- income countries. Concurrently, the
global consumption of unhealthy products, such as soft drinks and
processed foods, continues to rise. The ongoing expansion of
multinational food and beverage companies, or 'Big Food', is a key
factor behind these trends. This collection provides critical
insight into the global expansion of 'Big Food', including its
incursion into low-and-middle income countries. It examines the
changing dynamics of the global food supply, and discusses how
low-income countries can alter the 'Big Food'-diet from the
bottom-up. It examines a number of issues related to 'Big Food'
marketing strategies, including the way in which they advertise to
youths and the rural poor. These issues are discussed in terms of
their public health implications, and their relation to public
health activities, for example 'soda taxes', and the promotion of
nutritionally-healthier products. This book was originally
published as a special issue of Critical Public Health.
Obesity is a global public health problem of crucial importance.
Obesity rates remain high in high-income countries and are rapidly
increasing in low- and middle- income countries. Concurrently, the
global consumption of unhealthy products, such as soft drinks and
processed foods, continues to rise. The ongoing expansion of
multinational food and beverage companies, or 'Big Food', is a key
factor behind these trends. This collection provides critical
insight into the global expansion of 'Big Food', including its
incursion into low-and-middle income countries. It examines the
changing dynamics of the global food supply, and discusses how
low-income countries can alter the 'Big Food'-diet from the
bottom-up. It examines a number of issues related to 'Big Food'
marketing strategies, including the way in which they advertise to
youths and the rural poor. These issues are discussed in terms of
their public health implications, and their relation to public
health activities, for example 'soda taxes', and the promotion of
nutritionally-healthier products. This book was originally
published as a special issue of Critical Public Health.
"There is no one better to ask than Marion, who is the leading
guide in intelligent, unbiased, independent advice on eating, and
has been for decades."--Mark Bittman, author of How to Cook
Everything Let's Ask Marion is a savvy and insightful
question-and-answer collection that showcases the expertise of food
politics powerhouse Marion Nestle in exchanges with environmental
advocate Kerry Trueman. These informative essays show us how to
advocate for food systems that are healthier for people and the
planet, moving from the politics of personal dietary choices, to
community food issues, and finally to matters that affect global
food systems. Nestle has been thinking, writing, and teaching about
food systems for decades, and her impact is unparalleled. Let's Ask
Marion provides an accessible survey of her opinions and
conclusions for anyone curious about the individual, social, and
global politics of food.
New York is hailed as one of the world's "food capitals" but the
history of food-making in the city has been mostly lost. Since the
establishment of the first Dutch brewery, the commerce and culture
of food enriched New York and promoted its influence on America and
the world by driving innovations in machinery and transportation
and shaping international trade. Immigrant ingenuity re-created Old
World flavours and spawned familiar brands. Food historian Joy
Santlofer re-creates the texture of everyday life in a growing
metropolis. With an eye-opening focus on bread, sugar, drink and
meat, Food City recovers the fruitful tradition behind today's
local brewers and confectioners, recounting how food shaped a city
and a nation.
"A chronicle of hard work and a public health resource, Slow Cooked
is also proof that it's never too late."-New York Times Marion
Nestle reflects on her late-in-life career as a world-renowned food
politics expert, public health advocate, and a founder of the field
of food studies after facing decades of low expectations. In this
engrossing memoir, Marion Nestle reflects on how she achieved
late-in-life success as a leading advocate for healthier and more
sustainable diets. Slow Cooked recounts of how she built an
unparalleled career at a time when few women worked in the
sciences, and how she came to recognize and reveal the enormous
influence of the food industry on our dietary choices. By the time
Nestle obtained her doctorate in molecular biology, she had been
married since the age of nineteen, dropped out of college, worked
as a lab technician, divorced, and become a stay-at-home mom with
two children. That's when she got started. Slow Cooked charts her
astonishing rise from bench scientist to the pinnacles of academia,
as she overcame the barriers and biases facing women of her
generation and found her life's purpose after age fifty. Slow
Cooked tells her personal story-one that is deeply relevant to
everyone who eats, and anyone who thinks it's too late to follow a
passion.
Food safety is a matter of intense public concern, and for good
reason. Millions of annual cases of food "poisonings" raise alarm
not only about the food served in restaurants and fast-food outlets
but also about foods bought in supermarkets. The introduction of
genetically modified foods--immediately dubbed "Frankenfoods"--only
adds to the general sense of unease. Finally, the events of
September 11, 2001, heightened fears by exposing the vulnerability
of food and water supplies to attacks by bioterrorists. How
concerned should we be about such problems? Who is responsible for
preventing them? Who benefits from ignoring them? Who decides?
Marion Nestle, author of the critically acclaimed "Food Politics,
"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. Although the debates may appear to be about science,
Nestle maintains that they really are about control: Who decides
when a food is safe?
She demonstrates how powerful food industries oppose safety
regulations, deny accountability, and blame consumers when
something goes wrong, and how century-old laws for ensuring food
safety no longer protect our food supply. Accessible, informed, and
even-handed, "Safe Food "is for anyone who cares how food is
produced and wants to know more about the real issues underlying
today's headlines.
Across the Soviet Union and eastern Europe during the socialist
period, food emerged as a symbol of both the successes and failures
of socialist ideals of progress, equality, and modernity. By the
late 1980s, the arrival of McDonald s behind the Iron Curtain
epitomized the changes that swept across the socialist world. Not
quite two decades later, the effects of these arrivals were evident
in the spread of foreign food corporations and their integration
into local communities. This book explores the role played by food
as commodity, symbol, and sustenance in the transformation of life
in Russia and eastern Europe since the end of socialism. Changes in
food production systems, consumption patterns, food safety, and
ideas about health, well-being, nationalism, and history provide
useful perspectives on the meaning of the postsocialist transition
for those who lived through it."
Calories - too few or too many - are the source of health problems
affecting billions of people in today's globalized world. Although
calories are essential to human health and survival, they cannot be
seen, smelled, or tasted. They are also hard to understand. In Why
Calories Count, Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim explain in clear
and accessible language what calories are and how they work, both
biologically and politically. As they take readers through the
issues that are fundamental to our understanding of diet and food,
weight gain, loss, and obesity, Nestle and Nesheim sort through a
great deal of the misinformation put forth by food manufacturers
and diet program promoters. They elucidate the political stakes and
show how federal and corporate policies have come together to
create an "eat more" environment. Finally, having armed readers
with the necessary information to interpret food labels, evaluate
diet claims, and understand evidence as presented in popular media,
the authors offer some candid advice: get organized; eat less; eat
better; move more; and get political.
The food system is broken, but there is a revolution underway to
fix it. Bite Back presents an urgent call to action and a vision
for disrupting corporate power in the food system, a vision shared
with countless organizers and advocates worldwide. In this
provocative and inspiring new book, editors Saru Jayaraman and
Kathryn De Master bring together leading experts and activists who
are challenging corporate power by addressing injustices in our
food system, from wage inequality to environmental destruction to
corporate bullying. In paired chapters, authors present a problem
arising from corporate control of the food system and then recount
how an organizing campaign successfully tackled it. This unique
solutions-oriented book allows readers to explore the core
contemporary challenges embedded in our food system and learn how
we can push back against corporate greed to benefit workers and
consumers everywhere.
Whenever we turn on the TV, flip a page in a magazine, or glance at
a flyer in the grocery store, we are constantly bombarded with
nutritional advice. Almond products can boost your memory! Milk
helps build up your bones! Cereal is part of a doctor-approved
balanced breakfast for growing girls and boys! Study after study
tells us what we should eat, how much, and when. Words like
"superfood" and "guilt free" convince us that we're making the
right choice when we pluck an item off the shelf and head for the
checkout line. We count on nutrition science to guide us through
the overwhelming choices in our local grocery store and helps us
make the best decisions for our health. Except it often doesn't.
Many of these studies we rely on to make decisions are not funded
by unbiased third parties-they're actually funded by companies
seeking to buoy their own products. As renowned food expert Marion
Nestle reveals in Unsavory Truth, most nutrition societies,
committees, and departments are actually in the food industry's
pocket. Whether it's a study claiming moderate exercise is enough
to cancel out the calories in sugary sodas (backed by Coca-Cola) or
a report about how blueberries can reduce the risk of erectile
dysfunction (backed by the US Highbush Blueberry Council), the food
industry has learned how to turn selective disclosure and partisan
probes into major profit. Like Big Pharma has corrupted medical
science, so Big Food has corrupted nutrition. In a nation where
more than two-thirds of adults and one-third of children are
considered overweight or obese, it's never been more important to
put our public health first. With stricter legislation for food
companies and researchers, stricter policies for societies and
journals, and better consumer education, Nestle argues that we have
a fighting chance to get our country's nutrition back on track.
With riveting prose and unmatched investigative rigor, Unsavory
Truth reveals how big food companies took over nutrition
science-and how we can take it back.
We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the
fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing expose,
Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the competition
really works and how it affects our health. The abundance of food
in the United States - enough calories to meet the needs of every
man, woman, and child twice over - has a downside. Our
over-efficient food industry must do everything possible to
persuade people to eat more - more food, more often, and in larger
portions - no matter what it does to waistlines or well-being. Like
manufacturing cigarettes or building weapons, making food is big
business. Food companies in 2000 generated nearly $900 billion in
sales. They have stakeholders to please, shareholders to satisfy,
and government regulations to deal with. It is nevertheless
shocking to learn precisely how food companies lobby officials,
co-opt experts, and expand sales by marketing to children, members
of minority groups, and people in developing countries. We learn
that the food industry plays politics as well as or better than
other industries, not least because so much of its activity takes
place outside the public view. Editor of the 1988 "Surgeon
General's Report on Nutrition and Health", Nestle is uniquely
qualified to lead us through the maze of food industry interests
and influences. She vividly illustrates food politics in action:
watered-down government dietary advice, schools pushing soft
drinks, diet supplements promoted as if they were First Amendment
rights. When it comes to the mass production and consumption of
food, strategic decisions are driven by economics - not science,
not common sense, and certainly not health. No wonder most of us
are thoroughly confused about what to eat to stay healthy. An
accessible and balanced account, "Food Politics" will forever
change the way we respond to food industry marketing practices. By
explaining how much the food industry influences government
nutrition policies and how cleverly it links its interests to those
of nutrition experts, this path-breaking book helps us understand
more clearly than ever before what we eat and why.
Fear of mad cow disease, a lethal illness transmitted from infected
beef to humans, has spread from Europe to the United States and
around the world. Originally published to much acclaim in France,
this scientific thriller, available in English for the first time
and updated with a new chapter on developments in 2001, tells of
the hunt for the cause of an enigmatic class of fatal brain
infections, of which mad cow disease is the latest incarnation. In
gripping, nontechnical prose, Maxime Schwartz details the deadly
manifestations of these diseases throughout history, describes the
major players and events that led to discoveries about their true
nature, and outlines our current state of knowledge. The book
concludes by addressing the question we all want answered: should
we be afraid? The story begins in the eighteenth century with the
identification of a mysterious illness called scrapie that was
killing British sheep. It was not until the 1960s that scientists
understood that several animal and human diseases, including
scrapie, were identical, and together identified them as
transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE). The various guises
assumed throughout history by TSE include an illness called kuru in
a cannibalistic tribe in Papua New Guinea, an infectious disease
that killed a group of children who had been treated for growth
hormone deficiencies, and mad cow disease. Revealing the
fascinating process of scientific discovery that led to our
knowledge of TSE, Schwartz relates pivotal events in the history of
biology, including the Pasteurian revolution, the birth of
genetics, the emergence of molecular biology, and the latest
developments in biotechnology. He also explains the Nobel
Prize-winning prion hypothesis, which has rewritten the rules of
biological heredity and is a key link between the distinctive
diseases of TSE. Up-to-date, informative, and thoroughly
captivating, How the Cows Turned Mad tells the story of a disease
that continues to elude on many levels. Yet science has come far in
understanding its origins, incubation, and transmission. This
authoritative book is a stunning case history that illuminates the
remarkable progression of science.
Sodas are astonishing products. Little more than flavored
sugar-water, these drinks cost practically nothing to produce or
buy, yet have turned their makers-principally Coca-Cola and
PepsiCo-into a multibillion-dollar industry with global
recognition, distribution, and political power. Billed as
"refreshing," "tasty," "crisp," and "the real thing," sodas also
happen to be so well established to contribute to poor dental
hygiene, higher calorie intake, obesity, and type-2 diabetes that
the first line of defense against any of these conditions is to
simply stop drinking them. Habitually drinking large volumes of
soda not only harms individual health, but also burdens societies
with runaway healthcare costs. So how did products containing
absurdly inexpensive ingredients become multibillion dollar
industries and international brand icons, while also having a
devastating impact on public health? In Soda Politics, the 2016
James Beard Award for Writing & Literature Winner, Dr. Marion
Nestle answers this question by detailing all of the ways that the
soft drink industry works overtime to make drinking soda as common
and accepted as drinking water, for adults and children. Dr.
Nestle, a renowned food and nutrition policy expert and public
health advocate, shows how sodas are principally miracles of
advertising; Coca-Cola and PepsiCo spend billions of dollars each
year to promote their sale to children, minorities, and low-income
populations, in developing as well as industrialized nations. And
once they have stimulated that demand, they leave no stone unturned
to protect profits. That includes lobbying to prevent any measures
that would discourage soda sales, strategically donating money to
health organizations and researchers who can make the science about
sodas appear confusing, and engaging in Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR) activities to create goodwill and silence
critics. Soda Politics follows the money trail wherever it leads,
revealing how hard Big Soda works to sell as much of their products
as possible to an increasingly obese world. But Soda Politics does
more than just diagnose a problem-it encourages readers to help
find solutions. From Berkeley to Mexico City and beyond, advocates
are successfully countering the relentless marketing, promotion,
and political protection of sugary drinks. And their actions are
having an impact-for all of the hardball and softball tactics the
soft drink industry employs to maintain the status quo, soda
consumption has been flat or falling for years. Health advocacy
campaigns are now the single greatest threat to soda companies'
profits. Soda Politics provides readers with the tools they need to
keep up pressure on Big Soda in order to build healthier and more
sustainable food systems.
Marion Nestle, acclaimed author of "Food Politics, "now 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. Nestle
follows the trail of tainted pet food ingredients back to their
source in China and along the supply chain to their introduction
into feed for pigs, chickens, and fish in the United States,
Canada, and other countries throughout the world. What begins as a
problem "merely" for cats and dogs soon becomes an issue of
tremendous concern to everyone. Nestle uncovers unexpected
connections among the food supplies for pets, farm animals, and
people and identifies glaring gaps in the global oversight of food
safety.
Harpers "Review of Biochemistry" erfreut sich aufgrund seiner
ubersichtlichen Gliederung und klaren Konzeption bei den
Medizinstudenten im englischsprachigen Raum grosser Beliebtheit.
Die bereits nach kurzer Zeit vorliegende 2. deutschsprachige
Auflage, die sich an der 20. Auflage orientiert, behandelt
besonders den fur Mediziner interessanten Teil der Biochemie. In
einpragsamer Form werden die chemischen Grundlagen der fur die
Medizin wichtigen Naturstoffe zusammen mit den grundlegenden
Reaktionen des Intermediarstoffwechsels und deren Regulation
besprochen. Breiten Raum nimmt die Darstellung der modernen
Molekularbiologie ein. Ausfuhrliche Kapitel behandeln Struktur und
Funktion von Membranen, von Cytoskelett sowie der extrazellularen
Matrix. Die Vielzahl pathobiochemischer Bezuge macht das Buch
besonders fur Medizinstudenten und Arzte zu einem ausgezeichneten
Lehr- und Lernbuch."
At no time during the Great Depression was the contradiction
between agriculture surplus and widespread hunger more wrenchingly
graphic than in the government's attempt to raise pork prices
through the mass slaughter of miliions of "unripe" little pigs.
This contradiction was widely perceived as a "paradox." In fact, as
Janet Poppendieck makes clear in this newly expanded and updated
volume, it was a normal, predictable working of an economic system
rendered extreme by the Depression. The notion of paradox, however,
captured the imagination of the public and policy makers, and it
was to this definition of the problem that surplus commodities
distribution programs in the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations
were addressed. This book explains in readable narrative how the
New Deal food assistance effort, originally conceived as a relief
measure for poor people, became a program designed to raise the
incomes of commercial farmers. In a broader sense, the book
explains how the New Deal years were formative for food assistance
in subsequent administrations; it also examines the performance--or
lack of performance--of subsequent in-kind relief programs.
Beginning with a brief survey of the history of the American farmer
before the depression and the impact of the Depression on farmers,
the author describes the development of Hoover assistance programs
and the events at the end of that administration that shaped the
"historical moment" seized by the early New Deal. Poppendieck goes
on to analyze the food assistance policies and programs of the
Roosevelt years, the particular series of events that culminated in
the decision to purchase surplus agriculture products and
distribute them to the poor, the institutionalization of this
approach, the resutls achieved, and the interest groups formed. The
book also looks at the takeover of food assistance by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture and its gradual adaptation for use as a
tool in the maintenance of farm income. Utliizing a wide variety of
official and unofficial sources, the author reveals with unusual
clarity the evolution from a policy directly responsive to the poor
to a policy serving mainly democratic needs.
Sodas are astonishing products. Little more than flavored
sugar-water, these drinks cost practically nothing to produce or
buy, yet have turned their makers - principally Coca-Cola and
PepsiCo - into multibillion dollar industries with global
recognition, distribution, and political power. So how did
something so cheap come to mean so much and to have such
devastating health and food policy consequences? Soda Politics is a
story of the American food system at work, written by the
incomparable NYU scholar and public health champion Marion Nestle.
It is the first book to focus on the history, politics, nutrition,
and health impact of soda, asking how we created this system, what
its problems are, and what we can do to change things. Coke and
Pepsi spend billions of dollars a year on advertising and lobbying
to prevent any measures to limit soda, a product billed as
"refreshing," "tasty," "crisp," and "the real thing" that also
happens to be a major cause of health problems, from obesity to
Type II diabetes. They target minorities, poor people, and
children, and are involved in land and water grabs in
underdeveloped countries, where they also have redoubled their
efforts at building their market share. In fact, the marketing
practices of soda companies are eerily similar to that of cigarette
companies - both try to sell as much as possible, regardless of the
health consequences, in any way that they can. And the public is
starting to scrutinize sugary sodas in the same way that they do
cigarettes. Soda consumption is falling, and Americans are only
partially replacing soda with other sugary drinks. This did not
happen accidentally: the fall in soda sales is a result of
successful food advocacy. Soda Politics provides the overwhelming
evidence to keep up pressure on all those involved in the
production, marketing, sales, and subsidization of soda.
The food system is broken, but there is a revolution underway to
fix it. Bite Back presents an urgent call to action and a vision
for disrupting corporate power in the food system, a vision shared
with countless organizers and advocates worldwide. In this
provocative and inspiring new book, editors Saru Jayaraman and
Kathryn De Master bring together leading experts and activists who
are challenging corporate power by addressing injustices in our
food system, from wage inequality to environmental destruction to
corporate bullying. In paired chapters, authors present a problem
arising from corporate control of the food system and then recount
how an organizing campaign successfully tackled it. This unique
solutions-oriented book allows readers to explore the core
contemporary challenges embedded in our food system and learn how
we can push back against corporate greed to benefit workers and
consumers everywhere.
At no time during the Great Depression was the contradiction
between agriculture surplus and widespread hunger more wrenchingly
graphic than in the government's attempt to raise pork prices
through the mass slaughter of miliions of unripe little pigs. This
contradiction was widely perceived as a paradox. In fact, as Janet
Poppendieck makes clear in this newly expanded and updated volume,
it was a normal, predictable working of an economic system rendered
extreme by the Depression. The notion of paradox, however, captured
the imagination of the public and policy makers, and it was to this
definition of the problem that surplus commodities distribution
programs in the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations were
addressed.
This book explains in readable narrative how the New Deal food
assistance effort, originally conceived as a relief measure for
poor people, became a program designed to raise the incomes of
commercial farmers. In a broader sense, the book explains how the
New Deal years were formative for food assistance in subsequent
administrations; it also examines the performance--or lack of
performance--of subsequent in-kind relief programs.
Beginning with a brief survey of the history of the American
farmer before the depression and the impact of the Depression on
farmers, the author describes the development of Hoover assistance
programs and the events at the end of that administration that
shaped the historical moment seized by the early New Deal.
Poppendieck goes on to analyze the food assistance policies and
programs of the Roosevelt years, the particular series of events
that culminated in the decision to purchase surplus agriculture
products and distribute them to the poor, the institutionalization
of this approach, the resutls achieved, and the interest groups
formed. The book also looks at the takeover of food assistance by
the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its gradual adaptation for
use as a tool in the maintenance of farm income. Utliizing a wide
variety of official and unofficial sources, the author reveals with
unusual clarity the evolution from a policy directly responsive to
the poor to a policy serving mainly democratic needs.
""Pet Food Politics" is a first class example of investigative
journalism exposing one of the challenges of globalization of our
food supply. It's required reading for anyone who wants to
understand the implications of globalization and the importance of
quality control in all our food."--Allen M. Schoen, MS, DVM, author
of "Kindred Spirits: How the Remarkable Bond Between Humans and
Animals Can Change the Way We Live"
"Provocative, well-researched, and insightful, "Pet Food Politics"
is a page-turner and a must-read for people who care as much about
the quality and safety of the food in their pets' bowls as they do
about the food on their own plates. This in-depth study reads like
a thriller, and will make consumers reconsider trusting the 'hand'
that feeds them."--Claudia Kawczynska, Editor in Chief, "The Bark"
""Pet Food Politics" offers the most detailed account we'll ever
get of the 2007 pet food recalls--even for those of us who closely
followed the story. What's more, Marion Nestle uses the specifics
of this event to reveal the inadequacies of the agents and policies
that are supposed to safeguard U.S. pet food. While "Pet Food
Politics" will be fascinating to pet owners, given the myriad
connections between the human food and pet food industries, this is
an important book for anyone who eats."--Nancy Kerns, Editor,
"Whole Dog Journal"
"How pet food is produced--and its parallels to the manufacturing
of human food--should be of concern to everyone, not just to those
who love animals. In her expert examination of the pet food
industry, Dr. Nestle tells a story as compelling as any mystery.
You'll never look at the pet-food aisle the same way again--or your
own food, either."--Gina Spadafori, Universal Press Syndicate
pet-care columnist and bestselling pet-book author
Praise for Marion Nestle's previous work:
"Marion Nestle . . . explains what the industrialization of the
food supply in this country has done to both the taste and the
safety of the foods we eat."--Alice Waters, author of "The Art of
Simple Food"
"Marion Nestle has emerged as one of the most sane, knowledgeable,
and independent voices in the current debate over the health and
safety of the American food system."--Michael Pollan, author of "In
Defense of Food"
""Pet Food Politics" reads like a detective story in which each new
clue points to a greater crime than the one we started out
investigating. Marion Nestle makes an overwhelming case for the
inadequacy of our present system of monitoring food safety."--Peter
Singer, author of "Animal Liberation"
Human nutrition expert and author of the critically acclaimed "What
to Eat, "Marion Nestle, Ph.D., M.P.H., has joined forces with
Malden C. Nesheim, Ph.D., a Cornell animal nutrition expert, to
write "Feed Your Pet Right, "the first complete, research-based
guide to selecting the best, most healthful foods for your cat or
dog. A comprehensive and objective look at the science behind pet
food, it tells a fascinating story while evaluating the range of
products available and examining the booming pet food industry and
its marketing practices. Drs. Nestle and Nesheim also present the
results of their unique research into this sometimes secretive
industry. Through conversations with pet food manufacturers and
firsthand observations, they reveal how some companies have refused
to answer questions or permit visits. The authors also analyze food
products, basic ingredients, sources of ingredients, and the
optimal ways to feed companion animals. In this engaging narrative,
they explain how ethical considerations affect pet food research
and product development, how pet foods are regulated, and how
companies influence veterinary training and advice. They conclude
with specific recommendations for pet owners, the pet food
industry, and regulators. A road map to the most nutritious diets
for cats and dogs, "Feed Your Pet Right "is sure to be a reference
classic to which all pet owners will turn for years to come.
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