Stories by Michele Simon
Michele Simon is a public health lawyer specializing in industry marketing and lobbying tactics. She is the author of Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back, and research and policy director at Marin Institute, an alcohol industry watchdog group. She is grateful to live in Oakland, Calif., within walking distance of a farmers market. You can follow her on Twitter.
Posted on Feb 8, 2011, Source: Grist.org
The time has come to ask, are dietary guidelines just another charade, a waste of taxpayer dollars?
Posted on Jan 27, 2011, Source: Grist.org
The legal case against Happy Meals, marketed to kids.
Posted on Aug 5, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Pepsi's strategy: Create a research environment so scientists and public health experts don't feel out of place at the corporate HQ of sugar, salt and fat.
Posted on Jul 8, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Has Big Food already run out of customers in cities and other locales that are more readily accessible by land?
Posted on Jun 2, 2010, Source: AlterNet
PepsiCo claims to be "investing in a healthier future for people and our planet." But how is that possible when their top-selling products include Mountain Dew and Doritos?
Posted on Oct 19, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Disney says it's concerned about kids' eating habits. But the company can't turn down the huge profits associated with helping junk-food companies market to children.
Posted on Feb 1, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Litigation may be the one weapon left in the fight against corporate America's fattening of children.
Posted on Nov 5, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The fast-food chain says it will tell diners just how much fat, sodium and calories are in its food. But this is just the latest attempt to whitewash its unhealthy practices.
Posted on Aug 29, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The trade group responsible for pushing sugary drinks to children of all ages has just trumpeted another set of useless new guidelines.
Posted on Jul 22, 2005, Source: AlterNet
A government-convened panel that was intended to discuss ways to limit marketing junk food to kids instead became an enormous PR opportunity for the junk food industry.
Posted on Jun 17, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The junk-food industry's lobbyists are working hard to make sure sodas, candy and fast food are cheap and plentiful in the nation's schools.
Posted on Feb 1, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The very definition of food has been transformed by industry, yet the federal government's dietary guidelines don't reflect that.
