Product Description

An accessible and balanced account, "Food Politics" laid the groundwork for today's food revolution and changed the way we respond to food industry marketing practices. Now, a new introduction and concluding chapter bring us up to date on the key events in that movement. This pathbreaking, prize-winning book helps us understand more clearly than ever before what we eat and why.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #98051 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 510 pages

Customer Reviews

Must-read for anyone who is concerned about health and food.
I'm telling everyone I know to read this book. It helped me see through the collusion of government and industry in relation to what we eat everyday. It also dispelled any illusions I had that consumers have that much of a choice when it comes to the food they eat and buy. It sounds like a dire subject, but it's a very entertaining read, with many useful charts, photographs, and diagrams.

Good, but in a sense flawed
This is a very well researched book on the pervasive influence of Politics and Industry on the priduction, marketing and advice on food. I was particularly interested in the latter, where the US FDA Food Pyramid is a key feature of the book. The industry reactions to even the slightest changes to this meant that it became a politicised, and thereby meaningless guide to the public. But the flaw I refer to is that the author herself based her role in these matters on a false premise - that fat is bad, that saturated fat is bad and that carbs should be a large part of everyone's diet. So the book lost credibility in my eyes. Aside from this, it is very thorough and highly (but appropriately) damning of industry, driven, in essence, by greed.