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I'd
been asked by the food industry to give this talk at an industry
breakfast, but 3 days prior to the event they got cold feet and
dis-invited me. The good news is, the internet's a much larger audience
than a room full of food industry folks who likely wouldn't have cared
much about what I had to say in the first place. So here's my take on
what the food industry can do, why they're not going to do it, and what
we can do about it.
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Millions have watched Dr. Robert Lustig's YouTube videos on the role
sugar plays in obesity. In this compilation of the popular YouTube
series "The Skinny on Obesity," Dr. Lustig and his UCSF colleagues dig
deeper into the root causes of the obesity epidemic. Discover why what
we eat is as important as how much we eat. Understand the effects of
stress on obesity rates, and why some predict that the next generation
will die younger than the current one due to obesity and the many health
problems it causes. Series: "The Skinny on Obesity - UCTV Prime"
[10/2013] [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 25717]
Marion Nestle
Professor and Chair, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University and author, Food Politics
Joan Dye Gussow
Professor emeritus of nutrition education, Teacher's College, Columbia University and author, This Organic Life
Kelly Brownell
Professor of Psychology and Director, Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders and author, Food Fight
Moderated by Michael Pollan
Knight
Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism. [events]
[glopubaffairs] [jschool] Credits: producer:UC Berkeley Educational
Technology Services
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this episode, we hear from the country’s leading expert on food
politics Marion Nestle, on the food industry’s influence, genetically
engineered and cloned food, and much more. Then food author, educator
and advocate Anna Lappé tells us why GMOs won’t feed the world, and how
organic farming can alleviate the climate crisis. And Rebecca Spector of
the Center for Food Safety gives us updates on the latest food fights
in Congress and the states.
We’re also now on Stitcher Radio!
Bay Area foodies, don’t forget the CEH gala event on Thursday, May 8, with keynote speaker Dennis Kucinich! Check the website for tickets and more information. Marion Nestle
is is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food
Studies, and Public Health at New York University. Michael Pollan ranked
her as the #2 most powerful foodie in America (after Michelle Obama),
and Mark Bittman ranked her #1 in his list of foodies to be thankful
for. From 1986-88, she was senior nutrition policy advisor in the
Department of Health and Human Services and editor of The Surgeon
General’s Report on Nutrition and Health. She is also the author of
several prize-winning books, including Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health. Her most recent books in 2013 are the tenth anniversary edition of Food Politics (with a foreword by Michael Pollan); and a new book, Eat, Drink, Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food Politics. Check out her blog at www.foodpolitics.com (and follow her on twitter @marionnestle). Anna Lappé
is a widely respected author and educator, known for her work as an
expert on food systems and as a sustainable food advocate. The co-author
or author of three books and the contributing author to ten others,
Anna’s work has been widely translated internationally and featured in The New York Times, Gourmet, Oprah Magazine, among many other outlets. Named one of Time magazine’s “eco” Who’s-Who, Anna is a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute and the Small Planet Fund. She is currently the head of the Real Food Media Project,
a new initiative to spread the story of the power of sustainable food
using creative movies, an online action center, and grassroots events.
Her latest book, Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It, was named by Booklist and Kirkus as one of the best environmental book’s of 2010. Her video series on food myths is at http://foodmyths.org/ . Rebecca Spector is West Coast Director of the Center for Food Safety.
She has been working in the environmental and agricultural sector for
more than 20 years; prior to CFS, she served as director of development
at Green Seal, the first U.S. product eco-labeling organization, and at
Mothers & Others for a Livable Planet. Rebecca is associate editor
of Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture and Your Right
to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in Your Food.
Take action in support of GMO labeling and in opposition to the DARK Act; also, learn more about state actions for GMO labels.
Music in this episode includes Eat it by Weird Al Yankovic, The Garden Song by Arlo Guthrie, and Aquarela do Brasilby João Gilberto. Tags: agriculture, food, food science, GMO, hunger, organic, sustainable
