Big Food squashes lawsuit seeking to hold it accountable for our trouble with food. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

The reader comments on this are so interesting. “Stop Freaking Out About Seed Oils” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/o...

When Warren Buffett bought Kraft/Heinz, he deflected concern about people avoiding processed food for better health by saying there will always be lots of folks who need/want these products. Is that no longer true? Is there data on this? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/b...

From one of the smartest thinkers on food that I know: The Real Reason Our Food System Is Broken open.substack.com/pub/drjessic...

4 in 10 people have fatty liver disease, and other things you might not know about sugar. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Don’t let the b roll of me on my cello put you off. This is a quite good examination by PBS of some of the hijinks at play in your grocery store, including one of my favorites to parse: the outsized role that tobacco played in creating icons like Lunchables. www.instagram.com/reel/DLU4-1p...

The contractor fixing our house is so good he gets the best lunches I can make, the least I can do.

Brad Lander Doesn’t Belong in Jail. Does He Belong in City Hall? Yes, says Ezra Klein www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

A devastating take down of the man driving RFK Jr on processed food: Says his former boss:” He is an opportunist, peddling junk science to make millions.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

I’ve given this talk in London, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam and now Bavaria where the kids are alright and bracing themselves for the onslaught of the American junk diet and its health consequences.

Congratulations to the @baltimorebanner.com in my wife’s hometown for this superb and important journalism www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...

Arizona governor vetoes GOP push to bar buying sodas with food stamps, calling it punitive, misguided and a distraction from real ways to improve public health. tucson.com/news/state-r...

These are the people who grow our food, process our meat, care for our sick, repair our homes, pay huge amounts into Social Security knowing they’ll never get it back …… www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

Tempted by the wellness gurus pushing you to eat more protein? ⁦‪@alicegcallahan‬⁩ probes the science and finds it less than convincing. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/w...

Big Food has much bigger worries than RFK Jr’s focus on food dyes: snacking is down from what could be a perfect storm for them, the WSJ reports.

This month in history, my investigation of processed food hit the #1 NYTimes rankings for all nonfiction with these words: “In their hands, salt. sugar, and fat … are not nutrients as much as weapons — weapons they deploy to defeat competitors, certainly, but also to keep us coming back for more.”

It’s always their attempted coverup that sinks pols: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A quarter century ago, Big Food met secretly to weigh its culpability in chronic disease and here’s my inside reporting on why any big reforms will be very difficult to pull off: www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/m...

Kennedy blames poor eating for measles death, refuted by local authorities: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...

RFK Jr. promised transparency and and an ambitious effort to rid America of chronic disease. Instead, strife and a measles outbreak have dominated his first weeks as health secretary.

It’s worth reading the comments, for a look at the deep skepticism on things USDA. www.thelunaticfarmer.com/blog/2/27/20...

A fast-spreading mystery illness linked to bats has killed scores of people in Congo, with nearly half dying within 48 hours of showing symptoms, the WHO says

Just in case you were thinking of opening a restaurant, this reminder of how fragile an enterprise that is.

My sister was born in Fairbanks, before AK was a state. So maybe I’m an honorary local, ha.

Sorry, but this will always be Mt. Denali to me (skirting a storm off Windy Corner, 2021)

Are seed oils bad for you? Statnews does a typically terrific job diagnosing the MAHA crusade and its anti-government anti-authority crush www.statnews.com/2025/02/12/a...

Crashing sales spurs the biggest Food giant PepsiCo to sound alarm over consumers getting scared of its product.

Steal this book: I was so excited when Salt Sugar Fat made the library listing as a bestseller. And it’s still free. Check it out!

I know Costco for doing really smart things on food safety, so I pay attention to its other policies

‘‘Tis the season of diet hustlers who have the same script: “I was sick, found this miracle cure, which by divine grace I’m now called to sell to you, at a discount.”

Law firms begin soliciting clients to sue Big Food for making us sick, citing new lawsuit that in turn cites my reporting in Salt Sugar Fat

More bad news for the junk food industry: On top of an advertising ban, England is weighing a tax to encourage healthier eating options. www.bbc.com/news/article...

England is hitting the junk food industry where it will hurt (and help kids) the most: advertising. Starting this October.

Did I mention that Big Food’s global march has so overpowered local food cultures that even Russia published the 21st translation of my book Salt Sugar Fat?

Coke and Pepsi are ramping up their lobbying, my old paper the WSJ reports, using the tobacco argument that they’re just providing “choice.” But given how hard those companies work to get in our heads when we’re kids (see chapter 5 in Salt Sugar Fat) is free will really a thing?

Thanks for the invite from one of my favorite fellow journalists @tamarhaspel.bsky.social

You guys Michael Moss is here! @mossmichael.bsky.social If you care about the food system, his book SALT SUGAR FAT is required reading. I've added him to my starter pack of food people. go.bsky.app/NviYbNu

Lunchables have hit a rough patch, ⁦‪@CNN‬⁩ reports, with some thoughts from me on how they got into our heads www.cnn.com/2024/11/25/b...

Thank you so much. You as well.

Big Food in so many ways is more powerful than the gov agencies that supposedly regulate it on our behalf. My full conversation with Michael @smerconish @cnn this morning: www.cnn.com/2024/11/23/h...

Talking to @cnn @smerconish in a few minutes about Trump and Big Food from my kid’s college house in Ithaca where of course this is for breakfast.

Dyes in your cereal. Junk food in your head. Please join me this morning at 9:30 ET on @cnn with @smerconish to talk about what Trump called the “industrial food complex” and whether he, RFK Jr and Dr. Oz will be able to do anything about it. I’m a bit doubtful.