Marion Nestle

We who are about to call the FDA about a pet food recall issue blog for you

Pet Connection Blog (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

... So, I was mulling over the wording of the alert when an email popped into my inbox, cc’d to Marion Nestle. It was a reader, asking if either of us had any thoughts on the fact that Wysong Pet Food is saying that they didn’t issue an press release about their ongoing pet food recall because “ the matter was of small enough consequence that we have even been told by the FDA that a news...

Diversity, nutrition and health

Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

If you eat a variety of foods within and among groups – meat, dairy, fruit, vegetables, and grains – you don’t have to worry about nutritional details. That’s the word from a self-styled “nutrition academic” and you might think, as I do, that that’s all you need to know. But if you’re interested in some of the details, Marion Nestle’s post Are vegetarian diets OK? is well worth spending...

Labeling GM Foods: If the U.K. Can Do It, We Can Too!

Healthy Child Healthy World Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

... no? Here’s a chance for the FDA to fix an old mistake and give consumers a real choice. Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health (the department she chaired from 1988-2003) and Professor of Sociology at New York University. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition,...

Frank talk about food sometimes quashed

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009

Nutrition and public policy expert Marion Nestle answers readers' questions in this column written exclusively for The Chronicle. E-mail your questions to food@sfchronicle.com, with Marion Nestle in the subject line.

Cocoa Krispies and Immunity

Dr. X's Free Associations (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009

... will keep a kid from getting swine flu, or from catching a cold, doesn't make sense," says Marion Nestle, nutrition professor at New York University. "Yes, these nutrients are...

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Christie discussing Vick on Live from the Left Coast tonight

Pet Connection Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009

I’ve been asked to discuss my SFGate.com column about Michael Vick and what he did to his dogs on the radio show Live from the Left Coast with Angie Coiro — I guested, along with Marion Nestle, on her show about the most recent Nutro pet food recalls earlier this year — this evening at [...]

What Do People Opposed to Factory Farming Feed Their Pets?

Fanatic Cook (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009

As I'm reading Jonathan Safran Foer's various essays 1 which question the practice of factory farming, I'm wondering what he feeds his dog. What do people who oppose Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) feed their pets? Or do they opt out of pet ownership? Marion Nestle, in her book Pet Food Politics, says: "Pet foods have always been made from the leftover parts of slaughtered...