Food Politics by Marion Nestle

The industry newsletter, FoodNavigator, reports the top international Big Food companies.

Today is my 90th birthday, and this is my 5765th post on this site since starting it in 2007.

Yuka, the wildly popular (88 million users) supermarket app for analyzing food labels for nutritional value and health impact, has produced a terrific report: Ultra-Processed Foods: Decoding a Food Transformation with Major Health Consequences.

My co-author, Lisa Sutherland, is a former vice president of Kellogg.

On this Labor Day, let’s honor the people who do the hard agricultural work that brings food to our tables.

Gloria Steinem was very much a heroine of my generation.

I’ve been following the Cyclospora outbreak with riveted interest because it so exemplifies what’s wrong with our food system: not enough safety effort from producers and not enough government oversight.

Alas, we must now mourn the death of one of the great heroes of food politics, the honorable and immensely inspiring Wendell Berry.

MAHA has announced a big win.

When I saw the title of this study, I thought I’ll bet the Hass Avocado people paid for this one.