Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Excellent and thought provoking:

This book is up there with "Fast Food Nation" as an excellent expose of a business most of us take completely for granted. We all just assume food suppliers care about what we are eating and what they are selling, but - as in any business, most companies are more concerned with profits and dollars than people and health. I love a good Pop Tart now and then, and probably will continue to do so, but after reading this book I will never take advertisements or food promotions for granted.

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Read Before You Eat!:

Marion Nestle's book Food Politics is fantastic! This book may be the biggest expose in the food industry since Upton Sinclair's The Jungle! Nestle's fresh perspective on the food industry and the goverment's influence on our eating habits is sure to be the most popular and talked about controversy since the tobacco industry was targeted by health officials! It's huge! And, Food Politics is written in a very clear and concise manner. The style in which it is written will interest a wide audience - not only... more info

I don't think most of these reviewers read this book:

This book is not some stupid Michael Moore-style "expose" of the "food lobby," and anyone simpleminded enough to get that out of it...well...probably thinks Michael Moore makes sense too.

Marion Nestle has a pretty impressive resume, and has good authority to write a book like this. Sure, you might think she's trying to tell you that Great Big Establishment Secret in describing how different manufacturing/producing groups try to make their products appear in the best light at the FDA, USDA and so on. But... more info

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