Food safety oversight is largely, but not exclusively, divided between two agencies, the FDA and the USDA. The USDA mostly oversees meat and poultry; the FDA mostly handles everything else, including pet food and animal feed. Although this division of… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
To speak only of food inspections: the United States currently imports 80% of its seafood, 32% of its fruits and nuts, 13% of its vegetables, and 10% of its meats. In 2007, these foods arrived in 25,000 shipments a day… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
We don't have a farm-to-table food safety system. I keep saying this. It came as a big surprise to the FDA that tomatoes were… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
The chef has kids complaining to their parents the food they get in school is better than what they get at home. He's turned… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products. — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
Eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, go easy on junk foods. — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
The problem with nutrient-by-nutrient nutrition science is that it takes the nutrient out the context of the food, the food out of the context… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
They (food companies) are putting $36 billion into directing those choices. And their methods are very effective. — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
I have a generally optimistic temperament and am thrilled by what I see as a rapidly growing food movement, especially among young people who… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
The pet food recall, which was after all just about pets, and treated as if it were an inconsequential matter, was an absolute forerunner… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get. The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and produced over… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough to eat,… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
I am not a vegetarian. I subscribe to my own mantra: eat less, move more, eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, don't eat too… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil. — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
