Food Politics by Marion Nestle
My latest publication: BMJ editorial on the dietary guidelines
The sugar industry fights back
Weekend reading: The Spinach King
Canada’s new food warning label!
Journal retracts paper exonerating glyphosate (Roundup) from any harm to humans.
RIP USDA’s Household Food Security reports
Industry-influenced studies of the week: artificial sweeteners
The MAHA Dietary Guidelines VII: The Documents
The MAHA Dietary Guidelines VI. Some Concluding Thoughts.
The MAHA Dietary Guidelines V. The Alcohol Non-Recommendation
The MAHA Dietary Guidelines IV: Eat more meat!
Columbia University Epidemiology Grand Rounds
The MAHA Dietary Guidelines III: Conflicts of Interest
The MAHA Dietary Guidelines I: Personal Responsibility vs. Public Health Policy
The MAHA 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines have arrived: Cheerful, Muddled, Contradictory, Ideological, Retro
Keeping up with AI and food
The What to Eat Now spinoffs: miracles of AI?
Industry-funded studies of the week: Beef
Weekend reading: protein
Happy New Year!
A food politics round up of sorts
The invitations to DeepFake book clubs are pouring in
Industry-funded study of the week: artificial sweeteners and cancer risk
Weekend reading: How GLP-1 drugs are affecting food companies
Happy holidays!
Congress actually passes a bill: whole milk for schools
Instacart’s dynamic pricing: it’s wrong. Protests stopped it!
Industry-influenced study of the week: taste for sweets
RIP Dr. Jerome Lowenstein: a remembrance
Today’s dysfunctional FDA: Could staff losses have something to do with it?
USDA grants SNAP waivers to 6 new states
USDA’s Regenerative Farming Initiative: Real or Greenwashing?
Industry-funded conflict of the week: eggs and cognitive function
Weekend browsing: FAO’s Statistical Yearbook
Big Food launches campaign to counter concerns about ultra-processed foods
San Francisco’s lawsuit against food companies
Better late than never: Journal retracts glyphosate study.
Industry-funded study of the week: ginger and joint pain
Weekend reading: Women building food systems
Good news: UK law restricting supermarket placement of junk foods affects sales
Good news: milk pasteurization prevents spread of bird flu
What’s going on with soybeans? Farm Action to the rescue
Industry funded study of the week: Peanuts and cognitive function
Weekend reading: Sam Kass’s The Last Supper
Happy Thanksgiving: What is it costing you?
Good news about peanut allergies; they really are going down!
Not good news: The FDA is conducting fewer foreign inspections
Industry funded study of the week: canned beans
Weekend food for thought: The USDA’s unrelenting opposition to SNAP
Update on the ByHeart infant formula botulism disaster
Out today: The Lancet series on ultra-processed foods
More AI-hijacking: this time, What to Eat Now!
Industry funded study of the week: Pet food
Weekend response: media about What to Eat Now
The 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines: Some preliminary speculation
Not something I wanted to see: Botulism in infant formula
What to Eat Now. Today is publication day!
Industry funded studies of the week: Mango
Weekend pre-ordering: What to Eat Now
USDA uses partisan language in its SNAP announcements
Where are we on SNAP funding?
Big Food wants federal preemption (blocking) of tougher state standards for chemicals in food
I’ve been AI hijacked. Please report as spam.
Trick or Treat: Happy Halloween Candy!
Food companies want you to trust them—a lot
What I’m reading: MAGA vs. MAHA
Is RFK, Jr’s interest in food just a smokescreen?
Industry funded study of the week: eggs and Alzheimer’s risk
Weekend Reading: The Pierogi Problem
Trump food officials with ties to industry: Civil Eats has a list.
Texas elementary schools are selling ice cream in competition with school lunches (OK, USDA-approved, but still)
Trump administration tries to get rid of NHANES (it may yet succeed)
Food industry action of the week: corporate greenwashing
Weekend reading: Progress (?) toward the Sustainable Development Goals
New terms in nutritional vocabulary: dark matter and foodomics
Protein bars: Consumer Lab testing does not please manufacturers
California defines ultra-processed foods and bans them from school meals—by 2035 (!)
Industry-funded studies of the week: Nuts!
Weekend reading: UNICEF’s Feeding Profit report
The National Food Museum’s collection of short food videos
A MAHA Win? Beginning to close the GRAS loophole.
The new EAT-Lancet report: “predominantly plant-based”
Industry-funded study of the week: Eggs
Weekend reading: WHO’s new report on non-communicable diseases
Tyson Foods wins US Poultry award for wastewater management
Unilever finally clamps down on Ben & Jerry’s
USDA expands SNAP stocking requirements: Will this help?
Industry funded review of the week: Yogurt and Type 2 Diabetes
Weekend reading: Food Intelligence
California legislature passes bill banning ultra-processed foods from schools—and defining them
Trump administration will no longer collect data on food insecurity; shades of 1984
RIP Marian Burros, cookbook author, food politics writer, colleague, and friend
Weekend Reading: Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor: Food and Ag