9+ hour, 14+ min ago  (72+ words) Food Politics by Marion Nestle - San Antonio: American Public Health Association This will be a Food and Nutrition section panel. Details to follow. You might also like: The official launch will be at NYU’s Library, most likely at 4:00 p.m. Co-author…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (177+ words) Nick Freudenberg. Fighting for New York: Activism for Health and Social Justice. Columbia University Press, 2026. I wrote a blurb for this book, happily: A roadmap for health activists, Fighting for New York illustrates each step needed for successful advocacy through…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago  (300+ words) Let’s start this July 4 week with a bit of good news. Santa Cruz gets to keep the tax it passed in 2024. The Santa Cruz Sentinel: City of Santa Cruz wins court ruling on soda tax. The Sacramento County Superior Court…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (118+ words) I am on the advisory council to the National Food Museum, an online project created by Michael Jacobson, the now-retired founder and president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. It currently hosts three exhibits. (1) Food Impact Meter:…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (151+ words) The USDA published occasional “charts of note.” I thought this one was especially useful. The chart gives an estimate of total spending on food in the U.S.—an astonishing $2.51 trillion in 2025. The data are from USDA’s Food Expenditure Series,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (207+ words) I am not a litigious person, so I rarely pay attention to lawsuits, but this notice caught my eye: Chobani sued by Danone over high-protein yogurt claims: The Oikos maker said its rival is engaging in “unfair competition and consumer…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (376+ words) The Supreme Court has just handed Bayer, which owns Monsanto, a “landmark victory.” The decision may well overturn thousands of pending cases of people suing Bayer in the belief that the herbicide glyphosate (Roundup) caused them to develop non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma....

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (441+ words) The GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe) loophole refers to the way the FDA allows food manufacturers basically to decide for themselves whether the additives they are using are safe, voluntarily or not. Closing the loophole is a key goal of…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (200+ words) Bee Wilson. The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss, and Kitchen Objects. Norton, 2025. 312 pages. I loved this book. It was an unexpected pleasure from start to finish, and it completely changed the way I view the objects in my kitchen. Bee Wilson…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (161+ words) But the dairy industry wants to sell more full-fat milk and sponsors research demonstrating its superiority. This recent example replaced their typical dairy consumption with whole milk. If they had the right kind of intestinal bacteria, they lost weight. Objective:…...