Marion Nestle
Marion Nestle
Marion Nestle, Ph.D, M.P.H., 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
CountryUnited States of America
cutting safety want
When you have a food safety system that's voluntary and not mandatory, you're in a situation in which everybody wants everybody else to go first. So as a normal course of doing business, food companies cut corners and don't want to take the kind of trouble and the kind of testing and the kind of careful procedures that are required to produce the safe food because they don't have to.
country moving safety
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.
two agency safety
We don't really have any that protect the food supply from farm to table. We have a food safety system that's piecemeal, largely divided between two agencies that don't talk to each other very much. Neither agency can enforce regulations from the farm to the table.
country government safety
One way in which we can encourage the Chinese government to take more vigorous action to control food safety in their country is by just saying we're not going to buy Chinese foods until they get their system cleaned up. Admittedly it's a difficult system to get under control because an astonishing percentage - maybe 80 percent - of the foods in China are produced in small backyard operations.
safety poultry sides
Meat is produced under HACCP plans. Meat and poultry are required to be produced under standard food safety plans and they have been since the mid-'90s, and there are now fewer problems with meat than there used to be. That's on the USDA's side.
biggest pizza posters sauce saying source tomato
or they'll put posters up saying pizza is the biggest source of tomato sauce in the American diet.
eating people portions shocked
I think people will be really shocked when they see this because people are used to eating portions that are so much bigger.
palm
If they're replacing it with palm oil, I think it's a wash.
I don't define anything I eat as a vice.
chicken food lesser naturally occur plants
Omega-3s occur naturally in food like fish, chicken and eggs, and plants to a lesser extent. Why do we need to get it from bread?
among food generally growing health optimistic people produced rapidly thrilled
I have a generally optimistic temperament and am thrilled by what I see as a rapidly growing food movement, especially among young people who care about how food is produced and what it does to their health and the environment.
best eat except food kinds lots
The best way to eat is to eat lots of different kinds of foods. Except for breast milk, no one food is perfect.
gm label reverse time
It's time to get the FDA to reverse its 1994 decision not to label GM foods.
chicken food lesser naturally occur plants turn
What this does is to turn food into medicine, ... Omega-3's occur naturally in food like fish, chicken and eggs, and plants to a lesser extent. Why do we need to get it from bread?