#088 - Marion Nestle: Food Politics, Industry Influence, and the Fight for Public Health

Marion Nestle is Professor Emerita of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University and one of the most cited food policy researchers in the country. Her decades of work on corporate influence, nutrition science, and agricultural policy make her one of the field's most authoritative voices. In this episode, Nestle breaks down how food companies engineer overconsumption through advertising, product placement, and strategically funded research designed to produce favorable results before the study begins. She explains why blaming individuals for poor dietary choices is an unfair ask when they're up against a $1.5 trillion industry whose entire goal is to get you to eat more of the wrong things. We also discuss the corn economy as a lens into U.S. agricultural subsidies, how a single congressional appropriations act stripped sustainability language from the 2015 Dietary Guidelines, and what it would actually take to reform a food system that isn't broken — it's working exactly as designed. For more information about this episode, see our website: https://www.discoveringacademia.com/episodes/marion-nestle This presentation is a service of Discovering Academia, and all information presented is for commercial and informational purposes only. Discovering Academia provides no assurances as to the accuracy or completeness of the information presented and possesses no actual knowledge of any topic presented. Any opinions expressed in this presentation are solely attributed to each individual asserting the same and do not reflect the opinion of Discovering Academia.