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Deborah Goldstein

@table_matters

Mindful Living: Professionally and Personally. Slow down to smell the flowers AND focus on the actual aroma of the flowers. Life is NOT a dress rehearsal.

 New York, New York
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BREAKING: Last night JD Vance said he would never support an abortion ban. In newly unearthed footage, JD Vance is caught thanking the leaders of Project 2025 for their work on abortion bans. Retweet so all Americans see this.
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With Power Comes Responsibility: Rules For Hosting A Business Meal With Momentum dlvr.it/Rj4PXV
Start The Year Off Right: Memorize The Business Dining Dirty Dozen dlvr.it/Rj4PWf
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How much money is going into agricultural supports? dlvr.it/Rj3H8S
Overhyped food of the week: peanuts! dlvr.it/RhzZmM

Overhyped food of the week: peanuts! - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

The Peanut Institute is working overtime to convince you to eat more peanuts. Disclaimer: I love peanuts and think they are great to cook with and make an excellent snack—peanut butter too—but I see...

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Weekend reading: Grocery Activism dlvr.it/RhpnB9
Weekend reading: Grocery Activism - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

Weekend reading: Grocery Activism - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

Craig B. Upright.  Grocery Activism: The Radical History of Food Cooperatives in Minnesota.  University of Minnesota Press, 2020. I was interested to read this book because I was a member of the...

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Food fight: ethanol this time dlvr.it/RhkyWn
Food fight: ethanol this time - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

Food fight: ethanol this time - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

The Trump Administration has poured billions of dollars into supporting Midwest producers of industrial corn, but to date is not doing anything in particular to help producers of corn-based ethanol. ...

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The Counter investigates: the Economic Research Service’s shameful downfall dlvr.it/Rhg6jN
The Counter investigates: the Economic Research Service's shameful downfall - Food Politics by...

The Counter investigates: the Economic Research Service's shameful downfall - Food Politics by...

I was pleased to see Jessica Fu’s article in The Counter: One year after a mass employee exodus, USDA’s research arm remains half-staffed. New work has ground to a near halt. Long-time readers of...

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Let’s Ask Marion—its officially out! dlvr.it/RhbGjW
Let's Ask Marion-its officially out! - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

Let's Ask Marion-its officially out! - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

Today is the official publication date for my latest book.  This one is unusual for me.  It is tiny (4″ by 6″), short (fewer than 200 pages of text), and done in a Q and A format.  Kerry Trueman asks...

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Industry-sponsored studies of the week: two on omega-3 supplements dlvr.it/RhWV0Q

Industry-sponsored studies of the week: two on omega-3 supplements - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

I.  Expert Opinion on Benefits of Long-Chain Omega-3 Fatty Acids (DHA and EPA) in Aging and Clinical Nutrition, Troesch B, et al.  Nutrients 2020;12(9):2555. Conclusion: The evidence to date indica...

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Weekend reading: Tom Philpott’s Perilous Bounty dlvr.it/RhLRNR
Weekend reading: Tom Philpott's Perilous Bounty - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

Weekend reading: Tom Philpott's Perilous Bounty - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

Tom Philpott.  Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It.  Bloomsbury, 2020.   Here’s my blurb: In Perilous Bounty, Tom Philpott probes what’s wrong with Big...

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The latest on CBD dlvr.it/RhGfSt

The latest on CBD - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

I am interested in the politics of CBD edibles and supplements, and have been collecting items.  The big issue, of course, is regulation. The FDA has a web page devoted to this topic: FDA Regulation...

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Hunger in America: The landscape in 2020 dlvr.it/RhBtjd
Hunger in America: The landscape in 2020 - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

Hunger in America: The landscape in 2020 - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

Before getting into the statistics, let’s start with the on-the-ground reality: real people, often with small children, are too poor to feed themselves and their families properly.  For the human...

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Corporate capture in action: e-mails illustrate the meat industry’s role in keeping plants open despite Covid-19 dlvr.it/Rh74z1
Corporate capture in action: e-mails illustrate the meat industry's role in keeping plants open...

Corporate capture in action: e-mails illustrate the meat industry's role in keeping plants open...

I’ve written previously (see this one, for example) about the meat industry’s role in keeping plants open despite worker illnesses, but much about the industry’s pressures on government has been...

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Industry-funded study of the week: soup prevents obesity? dlvr.it/Rh3HPz
Weekend reading: books about individual foods, avocados this time dlvr.it/RgtGpD
Weekend reading: books about individual foods, avocados this time - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

Weekend reading: books about individual foods, avocados this time - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

Jeff Miller.  Avocado: A Global History.  Reaktion Books, 2020.     I did a blurb for this one: Avocados is a welcome addition to the Reaktion food series, so filled with splendid facts, figures, and...

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Food companies’ exploitation of Covid-19 for marketing purposes: new report dlvr.it/RgpShT
Food companies' exploitation of Covid-19 for marketing purposes: new report - Food Politics by...

Food companies' exploitation of Covid-19 for marketing purposes: new report - Food Politics by...

The NCD [Non-Communicable Disease] Alliance has issued a press release for its latest report, Signalling Virtue, Promoting Harm – Unhealthy Commodity Industries and COVID-19 As the press release...

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Do Trump’s SNAP announcements violate the Hatch Act? dlvr.it/RgkY28
Do Trump's SNAP announcements violate the Hatch Act? - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

Do Trump's SNAP announcements violate the Hatch Act? - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

These USDA announcements about Disaster SNAP were forwarded to me by Kaitlyn Waugaman, MPH, RDN, LDN, who is in the Division of Preventive Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The one...

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OSHA fines meat packers for Covid failures (sort of) dlvr.it/RgfgnV

OSHA fines meat packers for Covid failures (sort of) - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

I have complained previously how Covid-19 has exposed corporate capture of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the federal agency ostensibly responsible for ensuring “safe and...

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Misleading marketing of the week: maple syrup of all things dlvr.it/RgZtBK
Misleading marketing of the week: maple syrup of all things - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

Misleading marketing of the week: maple syrup of all things - Food Politics by Marion Nestle

My colleague Lisa Sasson, who is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly the American Dietetic Association), sent me a copy of its September 11 newsletter.  This, she pointed...

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