Food Politics: The Food Industry's Impact on Our Health: The Food Industry's Impact on Our Health

Author: Marion Nestle
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: This book explores how the American food industry influences people's diets, thereby affecting their health. The author reveals, using a wealth of little-known hand materials, that in the United States, the food industry, for its own interests and high profits, employs legal political means to exert every effort to influence congressional legislation and government policies, making policies that benefit the food industry but not consumers in terms of nutrition and health. This demonstrates to the world: food politics is the foundation of all politics in the United States; to address the nutritional and health issues of Americans, reform of the government system must be the starting point. Target Audience: Health/Food theorists in government and research institutions, management personnel in light industry enterprises, and faculty and students in relevant fields at universities.