Eat drink vote : an illustrated guide to food politics / Marion Nestle, bestselling author of What of eat, "with illustrations from the vaults of the Cartoonist Group."

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The American food system: from farm to table -- Why food production matters: hunger and its consequences -- Why food production matters: obesity and what to do about it -- What are we supposed to eat? -- What about feeding kids? -- Food issues: who decides? -- Food safety: who is responsible? -- Food labels versus marketing -- Fixing the food system: regulations -- Fixing the food system: the food movement.

"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 its is also necessary to vote with votes to make it easier for everyone to make healthier dietary choices"--