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Marion Nestle (born 1936) is an American academic. She is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. She is also a professor of Sociology at NYU and a visiting professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University.

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If you like eating meat but want to eat ethically, this is the book for you. From the hard-headed, clear-eyed, and sympathetic perspective of butchers who care deeply about the animals whose parts they sell, the customers who buy their meats, and the pleasures of eating, this book has much to teach. It’s an instant classic, making it clear why meat is part of the food revolution. I see it as the new Bible of meat aficionados and worth reading by all food lovers, meat-eating and not.

Animal, Book, Butchers, Care, Reading, Sympathetic

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 this group of kids into curious, adventurous eaters.

Chef, Curious, Home, Kids, Parents, School

The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby.

Agricultural, Extremely, Funny Inspirational, Meat, National, Powerful

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 such a long period of time that it's no longer debatable.

Debatable, Largely, Long, Longer, Strong, Vegetarian Diet

If you're sick, first you have to associate your sickness with a food. Then you have to report it to your doctor. Then the doctor reports it to some state authority. The state authority reports it to the federal authority. By the time all that happens, two weeks have gone by.

Doctors, Gone, Reports, Sick, State, Two

The real reason for health claims is well established: health claims sell food products.

Claims, Established, Products, Real, Reason

I live in the United States, and I'm not moving. But from the standpoint of food safety, the countries in Scandinavia do it better than we do. It's not that they don't have food-poisoning incidents; it's that there are many fewer in proportion to the population.

Country, Fewer, Moving, Safety, Standpoint

The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products.

Companies, Enormous, Fats, Incentives, Labels, Take

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 of the diet, and the diet out of the context of the lifestyle.

Diet, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Problem

There are loopholes big enough to drive trucks through. And Congress needs to take a look at those laws and make sure that they're much more rigorous.

Drive, Enough, Law, Looks, Needs, Take

Unbelievable as it may seem, one-third of all vegetables consumed in the United States come from just three sources: french fries, potato chips, and iceberg lettuce.

Consumed, Fries, Lettuce, Potato Chips, Potatoes, Vegetables

What it requires is that first of all you identify the hazards: Where in your production chain can contamination occur? This could be a simple matter of cooking a product to kill bacteria and making sure that the product is actually brought to that temperature.

Bacteria, Contamination, Cooking, Hazards, Making, Simple

They (food companies) are putting $36 billion into directing those choices. And their methods are very effective.

Billions, Choices, Effective, Method, Putting

The key dietary messages are stunningly simple: Eat less, move more, eat more fruits and vegetables, and don't eat too much junk food. It's no more complicated than that.

Eat, Food, Fruits, Messages, Moving, Simple

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 responsibility means that the FDA is responsible for 80% of the food supply, it only gets 20% of the federal budget for this purpose. In contrast, the USDA gets 80% of the budget for 20% of the foods. This uneven distribution is the result of a little history and a lot of politics.

Animal, Feed, Mean, Purpose, Responsibility, Result

Restaurants that have health-conscious consumers will pay attention to this.

Attention, Conscious, Consumers, Pay, Restaurants

The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up,. . . This sells food products, no question.

Believe, Claim, Government, Health, Labels, Question

Once the Government Accountability Office did a review of food safety systems in other countries and found many things about those food safety systems that were better than ours [American].

Accountability, American, Country, Government, Safety, Systems

Many countries have food safety systems from farm to table. Everybody involved in the food supply is required to follow standard food safety procedures. You would think that everyone involved with food would not want people to get sick from it.

Country, People, Safety, Sick, Supply, Thinking

What we know about diets hasn't changed. It still makes sense to eat lots of fruits and vegetables, balance calories from other foods, and keep calories under control. That, however, does not make front-page news.

Balance, Doe, Keep, Lots, Vegetables

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