Analysis Of Marion Nestle's Food Politics

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In “ Food Politics” by Marion Nestle forces on the different flaws of our government and its major influences from big corporations and how it all started. Nestle is a professor in the Department of Nutrition , Food Studies and Public Health at New York university. Nestle was also acclaimed to be one of the top and influences foodies in 2011. The food industry plays a big role on influencing the government to meet the favors of different companies,those companies do this by lobbying government officials. Food lobbyist were usually working for the government then hired to become a lobbyist or vise versa. I thought bribing a government official would be illegal but there has not been very successful laws passed to stop or contain lobbying

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