Nominee's Background:
From her faculty page: http://www.nyu.edu/education/nutrition/AOD/ faculty_and_staff/nestle.htm
Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. She served as chair of the department from 1988-2003. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley. Her first faculty position was in the Department of Biology at Brandeis University. From 1976-86 she was Associate Dean of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, where she taught nutrition to medical students, residents, and practicing physicians, and directed a nutrition education center sponsored by the American Cancer Society. From 1986-88, she was senior nutrition policy advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services and managing editor of the 1988 Surgeon Generals Report on Nutrition and Health. She has been a member of the FDA Food Advisory Committee and Science Board, the USDA/DHHS 1995 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, and American Cancer Society committees that issue dietary guidelines for cancer prevention. Her research focuses on analysis of the scientific, social, cultural, and economic factors that influence dietary recommendations and practices. She is the author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (2002) and Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (2003), both from University of California Press. In 2003, Food Politics won awards from the Association for American Publishers (outstanding professional and scholarly title in nursing and allied health), James Beard Foundation (literary), and World Hunger Year (Harry Chapin media). Information about her research can be found at http://www.foodpolitics.com.
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Progressive Criteria:
The Department of Agriculture will: Support sustainable agriculture;
Work to ensure the American people a safe, varied and plentiful food supply;
Put public health and environmental safety above corporate, political or regional interests;
Support family farming and encourage healthy economic development of rural communities;
Work to protect the Commons: public lands, air and water, biodiversity, unpatented seed stock;
Promote humane farming;
Work to avoid hurting poor farmers in poor countries with unfair competition from subsidized US crops.
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