{"id":1501,"date":"2014-02-23T19:59:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T08:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2014-02-23T19:59:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T08:59:41","slug":"lethal-but-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=1501","title":{"rendered":"Lethal but Legal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks Marion. Another book to chase up&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"CRnm6YZ9gF\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodpolitics.com\/2014\/02\/reading-for-the-weekend-lethal-but-legal\/\">Reading for the weekend: Lethal But Legal<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Reading for the weekend: Lethal But Legal&#8221; &#8212; Food Politics by Marion Nestle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.foodpolitics.com\/2014\/02\/reading-for-the-weekend-lethal-but-legal\/embed\/#?secret=0dNydlOGdM#?secret=CRnm6YZ9gF\" data-secret=\"CRnm6YZ9gF\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodpolitics.com\/2014\/02\/reading-for-the-weekend-lethal-but-legal\/\">Reading for the weekend: Lethal But Legal<\/a><\/h3>\n<div>\n<h4>Nick Freudenberg.\u00a0 Lethal but Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health.\u00a0 Oxford, 2014.<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lethal But Legal\" src=\"http:\/\/ukcatalogue.oup.com\/images\/en_US\/covers\/large\/9780199937196_450.jpg\" width=\"238\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I spoke last night on a panel celebrating the release of this book. \u00a0I gave it a rave blurb:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Lethal But Legal\u00a0<\/i>is a superb, magnificently written, courageous, and thoroughly compelling expos\u00e9 of how corporations selling cigarettes, guns, cars, drugs, booze, and food and beverages enrich themselves at the expense of public health.\u00a0 Even more important, Freudenberg tells us how we can organize to counter corporate power and achieve a healthier and more sustainable environment.\u00a0 This book should be required reading for anyone who cares about promoting health, protecting democratic institutions, and achieving a more equitable and just society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I will be using this one in classes. \u00a0Congratulations to Nick Freudenberg, director of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nycfoodpolicy.org\/\">Hunter College\u2019s Food Policy Center<\/a>, for producing this distinguished work of scholarship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks Marion. Another book to chase up&#8230; Reading for the weekend: Lethal But Legal Reading for the weekend: Lethal But Legal Nick Freudenberg.\u00a0 Lethal but Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health.\u00a0 Oxford, 2014. &nbsp; I spoke last night on a panel celebrating the release of this book. \u00a0I gave it a rave blurb: Lethal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=1501\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lethal but Legal<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5,9,10,13,22,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complex-adaptive-systems","category-data-saving-lives","category-healthcare","category-healthy-habits","category-nutrition","category-policy","category-rapid-learning-health-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}