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Eat drink vote, an illustrated guide to food politics, Marion Nestle, bestselling author of What of eat, "with illustrations from the vaults of the Cartoonist Group."

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Eat drink vote

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Marion Nestle, bestselling author of What of eat, "with illustrations from the vaults of the Cartoonist Group."

an illustrated guide to food politics

"What's wrong with the US food system? Why is half the world starving while the other half battles obesity? Who decides our food issues, and why can't we do better with labeling, safety, or school food? These are complex questions that are hard to answer in an engaging way for a broad audience. But everybody eats, and food politics affects us all. Marion Nestle, whom Michael Pollan ranked as the #2 most powerful foodie in America (after Michelle Obama) in Forbes, has always used cartoons in her public presentations to communicate how politics shaped by government, corporate marketing, economics, and geography influences food choice. Cartoons do more than entertain; the best get right to the core of complicated concepts and powerfully convey what might otherwise take pages to explain. In Eat, Drink, Vote, Nestle teams up with The Cartoonist Group syndicate to present more than 250 of her favorite cartoons on issues ranging from dietary advice to genetic engineering to childhood obesity. Using the cartoons as illustration and commentary, she engagingly summarizes some of today's most pressing issues in food politics. While encouraging readers to vote with their forks for healthier diets, this book insists that its is also necessary to vote with votes to make it easier for everyone to make healthier dietary choices"--, Provided by publisher

Introduction -- why an illustrated guide to food politics? -- Food is political? -- About the cartoons -- A note to readers -- 1. The American food system : from farm to table -- The US agricultural system -- Food system politics -- Today's food marketing environment -- 2. Why food production matters : hunger and its consequences -- Hunger in America -- Hunger in the world -- Food in international relations -- 3. Why food production matters : obesity and what to do about it -- Eat less -- Move more -- Should the government intervene? -- 4. What are we supposed to eat? -- What the government says : pyramids -- The Obama Administration's innovation : MyPlate -- A problem : nutrition research is hard to do -- Another problem : dietary advice is hard to follow -- Does it matter what we ear? -- 5. What about feeding kids? -- The problem : marketing food to kids -- The result : childhood obesity -- Can school food be fixed? -- The politics of feeding kids -- 6. Food issues : who decides? -- Alcoholic beverages -- Vitamin supplements -- Pet foods -- Genetically modified foods -- Cloned animals -- 7. Food safety : who is responsible? -- Microbes in the food supply -- Why not irradiate? -- What about chemical contaminants? -- Most frightening of all : Mad Cow Disease -- 8. Food labels versus marketing -- Informing customers : food labels -- Labeling beverages -- Marketing health : label claims -- 9. Fixing the food system : regulations -- Banning trans fats -- Posting calories -- Taxing junk foods and sodas -- Capping soda sizes -- The food industry : responding to critics -- 10. Fixing the food system : the food movement -- Changing the food system -- Buying local -- Buying organic -- Protecting animal welfare -- Choosing to go vegetarian -- Growing the food movement