Food Politics

“In a country that is being targeted by a food industry that will make and market any product that sells, even to children, regardless of its nutritional value or its effect on health, Food Politics is required reading.”

— Bloomsbury Review

“Nestle is simply one of the nation’s smartest and most influential authorities on nutrition and food policy.”

— Sun-Sentinel

“Nestle covers more ground, wields greater authority, and has concrete, tough-minded recommendations for change.”

— Seattle Weekly

"Food Politics is a book that deserves to change national and international attitudes, as Carson's Silent Spring did in the 1960s."

— American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

"Nestle berates the food companies for going to great lengths to protect what she calls "techno-foods" by confusing the public regarding distinctions among foods, supplements, and drugs, thus making it difficult for federal regulators to guard the public. She urges readers to inform themselves, choose foods wisely, demand ethical behavior and scientific honesty, and promote better cooperation among industry and government. This provocative work will cause quite a stir in food industry circles. Highly recommended." 

— Library Journal

"In her exquisitely researched book, Nestle details how the food industry’s tendrils have reached into every aspect of nutritionists’ work and are suffocating its public health goals. Food Politics provides rich case studies of how the industry infiltrates nutrition departments at universities and federal agencies and intermingles unabashedly with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)."

— Health Education & Behavior

"In the tradition of Upton Sinclair, Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan, Nestle exposes the dark side of food. A life-giving substance, food can kill us, and Nestle never loses sight of the seriousness of this issue throughout the text."

— Food Anthropology

“Food Politics is a well-researched, thoughtful, and angry book. Nestle is most eloquent in her analyses of the relationship between government and industry. . . .  An invaluable addition to the literature.”

— Technology and Culture

“Nestle's first book, ‘Food Politics’ (The University of California Press, 2002, $39.95 hardcover, $19.95 paper), put her on the map by documenting precisely how the food industry influences what we eat and government food policy.
After it came out, she was invited by the World Health Organization to a meeting with food company executives in Geneva.
They said, ‘You don't have to do anything except sit there. Your presence in the room will tell them we mean business,' ‘ she says.
Her new book, ‘What to Eat’ (due out May 2, North Point Press, $30) starts with a question that never used to be so hard to answer: What are we supposed to be eating?”

— San Francisco Chronicle

“Put her on the map by documenting precisely how the food industry influences what we eat and the government food policy.”

— Beaumont Enterprise

“Hard-hitting, revealing. . . . Challenges us to consider the political environment in which the science of food and nutrition exists.”

— New England Journal Of Medicine

“Essential reading for anyone seriously interested in addressing the nutritional dilemma facing the United States."

— Science Magazine

"A courageous and masterful exposé."

— Julia Child

"Provocative and highly readable."

— The Economist

"An excellent introduction to how decisions are made in Washington—and their effects on consumers."

— The Nation

“Thought-provoking. . . . Voting with our forks for a healthier society, Nestle shows us, is wihtin out power.”

— Los Angeles Times

“Examines... the industry's manipulation of America's eating habits while enumerating many conflicts of interest among nutritional author-ities.... A telling book.... It's hard to argue with Dr. Nestle's point that food is above all political.”

— New York Times

“In her widely acclaimed book, Nestle explains why the wealthiest nation in the world is eating itself to death. Based on meticulous research, Nestle's book exposes how the naked self-interest of the American corporate food industry compromises nutrition policy, as well as our government's regulation of food safety.”

— San Francisco Chronicle