What's wrong with the US food system? Why is half the world starving
while the other half battles obesity? Who decides our food issues, and
why can't we do better with labeling, safety, or school food? These are
complex questions that are hard to answer in an engaging way for a broad
audience. But everybody eats, and food politics affects us all.
Marion Nestle, whom Michael Pollan ranked as the #2 most powerful
foodie in America (after Michelle Obama) in Forbes, has always used
cartoons in her public presentations to communicate how politics--shaped
by government, corporate marketing, economics, and geography--influences
food choice. Cartoons do more than entertain; the best get right to the
core of complicated concepts and powerfully convey what might otherwise
take pages to explain.
In Eat Drink Vote, Nestle teams up with The Cartoonist Group syndicate
to present more than 250 of her favorite cartoons on issues ranging from
dietary advice to genetic engineering to childhood obesity. Using the
cartoons as illustration and commentary, she engagingly summarizes some
of today's most pressing issues in food politics. While encouraging
readers to vote with their forks for healthier diets, this book insists
that it's also necessary to vote with votes to make it easier for
everyone to make healthier dietary choices.
