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“Draining the Big Food Swamp” Report

"Draining the Big Food Swamp" looks at the size and correlating political clout of one powerful industry that has long dominated Washington politics: Big Food.

January 8, 2021 ResearchGate

A proposed approach to systematically identify and monitor the corporate political activity of the food industry with respect to public health using publicly available information

This paper maps out “a framework for categorizing the corporate political activity of the food industry with respect to public health and proposes an approach to systematically identify and monitor…

January 28, 2021 CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute

What to Expect in Washington? Opportunities for Healthier and More Equitable Federal Food Policy over the Next Four Years Webinar

In January 2021, the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute hosted a webinar that discussed the intersection of race equity, immigrant rights, and federal food policy. Our Executive Director, Lucy Martinez…

January 19, 2021 Bite Back

Bite Back: People Taking on Corporate Food and Winning

This book provides insights to how leading actors and activists are “challenging corporate power by addressing wage inequality, environmental destruction, injustice in the food system, and corporate bullying.”

January 19, 2021 Food First

Backgrounder: Dismantling Racism in the Food System

This series looks at racism and liberation in the food system.

January 19, 2021 The Boston Globe

To fix the food system, fix our democracy

An article discussing how people lost their political power and how people from various movements can join together to reclaim democracy.

January 19, 2021 NC Field

Our Food System Is Very Much Modeled on Plantation Economics’ CounterSpin interview with Ricardo Salvador on the coronavirus food crisis x JANINE JACKSON

An interview with the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Dr. Ricardo Salvador on the violent and exploitative origin of our food system and how COVID-19 has exacerbated the food crisis.

January 19, 2021 Stuffed and Starved

Stuffed and Starved

In this book, Raj Patel explains the steps to regain control of the global food economy, stop the exploitation of farmers and consumers, and rebalance global sustenance.

January 19, 2021 Food Politics

Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat

Marion Nestle is an esteemed academic and pioneer researcher who examines scientific and socioeconomic influences on food choice, obesity, and food safety, with an emphasis on the role of food…

January 19, 2021 Food Politics

Food Politics Blog

A weekly blog by Marion Nestle that provides the latest updates on food industry influence.

January 19, 2021 NCD Alliance

Signalling Virtue, Promoting Harm – Unhealthy commodity industries and COVID-19

A critical report and exposé that provides analysis of “the strategies adopted by the unhealthy commodity industries during the COVID-19 pandemic to date.”

January 19, 2021 Liability Roadmap

Liability Roadmap

A campaign that advances liability against corporations for climate change denial, fraud, and impact.