Media
Here you will find articles I am quoted in, interviews, and more.
- Media Coverage of Report, Clowning Around with Charity
- Media Coverage of Report, And Now a Word from Our Sponsors
- Media Coverage of Report, Food Stamps, Follow the Money
Articles
- Fast-Food Resolution: Transform Junk Food Image (Associated Press)
- Hellmann’s tweaks site in ‘mayonnaise’ spat (Associated Press)
- Hellmann’s Maker Sues Company Over Its Just Mayo Substitute Mayonnaise (New York Times)
- Big Food’s Weird War Over the Meaning of Mayonnaise, America’s Top Condiment (Washington Post)
- Mayo it Peas the Court: Is Vegan Mayo False Advertising? (Bloomberg)
- Egg Fight: Food Giant Sues Silicon Valley-Backed Startup Over Mayonnaise (Business Journal)
- Regulatory Focus on Added Sugars Presents Road Blocks in Reducing Obesity (Bloomberg)
- Whole Foods to Roll Out ‘Responsibly Grown’ Rankings For Fruits, Vegetables (Associated Press)
- Critics Evaluate Wal-Mart’s Focus On Sustainable Food Systems (The City Wire)
- Fast-Food Workers to Strike to Super-Size Their Wages (Associated Press)
- Critic of Artificial Sweeteners Pilloried By Industry-Backed Scientists (Center for Public Integrity)
- Dietitians Take Aim at Food Industry Sponsorships (MedPage Today)
- Food buyers lean toward ‘natural,’ a claim that’s hard to define (Los Angeles Times)
- Is San Francisco Big Soda’s Waterloo? (San Francisco Magazine)
- Parasites, Killing Their Host. The Food Industry’s Solution to Obesity (New York Times)
- How the US Government Helps McDonald’s Sell Junk Food (Mother Jones)
- Coca-Cola Ad: Working off a Soda Takes 23 Minutes (Associated Press)
- ‘Fed Up’ Portrays Obese Kids As Victims In A Sugar-Coated World (NPR)
- How Food Companies Court Nutrition Educators With Junk Food (NPR)
- An Inconvenient Truth About Our Food (New York Times)
- Report: Bee Losses Continue, Highlight Need to Restrict Pesticides (Wisconsin Gazette)
- Bees Crucial to Many Crops Still Dying at Worrisome Rate (Reuters)
- I Went to the Nutritionists’ Annual Confab. It Was Catered by McDonald’s. (Mother Jones)
- Soda Tax Myths: Do All Foods Really Fit in a Healthy Diet (BeyondChron)
- Pesticide Firms Use Tobacco Playbook to Spin Bee Crisis (PR Watch)
- 6 Good Foods Gone Bad (Consumer Reports)
- Are Stores Making Bank Off Food Stamps? (Mother Jones)
- Vermont steps closer to passing GMO food-labeling law (Reuters)
- NY Soda Tax Advocate’s Advice for SF and Berkeley (BeyondChron)
- Soda sins? (The Daily Journal)
- A Bittersweet Reminder About How Confusing Food Regulation Can Be (Voice of San Diego)
- Wal-Mart Encourages Poverty Looks to Low-Income Families to Bolster Profit (Liberty Voice)
- 11 Companies That Won’t Tell You Where Their Meat Comes From (BuzzFeed Food)
- Walmart Supports Raising Public Food Benefits – For Its Own Profit (The Dissenter)
- France Stands Up to Monsanto, Bans Seed Giant’s GMO Corn (EcoWatch)
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Honoring the work of women on International Women’s Day (Christian Science Monitor)
- Advocates skeptical of industry labeling effort (POLITICO)
- Soda Tax Myths: Are Beverages Being Unfairly Targeted? (BeyondChron)
- Chick-fil-A: Antibiotic-free, but still pretty terrible (Salon)
- Lessons on salt for dietitians…by a chip maker (Associated Press)
- Wal-Mart lowers earnings on winter weather, lower food stamp payments (The City Wire)
- How Big Banks Are Cashing In On Food Stamps (The American Prospect)
- Chick-fil-A Commits to Stop Sales of Poultry Raised With Antibiotics (New York Times)
- 7 GMO Foods That Will Blow Your Mind (BuzzFeed)
- U.S. farm bill a bonanza for California growers (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Pro-GMO Food Industry Fights to Keep Costs of Its Big Legal Fight Secret (Take Part)
- ‘Inconvenient Truth’ producer takes on food industry (POLITICO)
- Food giants cut 6.4 trillion calories, keep promise to first lady Michelle Obama (POLITICO)
- The Other NRA’s Lobbyists Are Keeping Workers Poor (Newser)
- Five Best Friday Columns (The Wire)
- Major split over buying junk food with federal aid (San Francisco Chronicle)
- 5 Surprising Things You Can Buy With Food Stamps (TIME)
- ‘Defense of Brands’ Meets ‘Defense of Consumers’ (Foodconsumer)
- No surprise here: junk food lobby wants federal ban on GMO labels (Treehugger)
- Memos highlight Big Food’s GMO-labeling stonewall strategy (Grist)
- Big Food Wants to Crush the GMO Labeling Movement (Mother Jones)
- Food industry’s master plan to stop GMO labeling revealed (Salon)
- Food Companies Claim Victory Against Labeling Initiative in Washington State (New York Times)
- Washington voters reject GMO labeling (POLITICO)
- Astroturf Tramples Grassroots in Washington State GMO Labeling Battle (PR Watch)
- McDonald’s slammed by wage advocates for providing McResources advice to staff (News.com.au)
- Michelle Obama policy initiatives are a big deal for big business (POLITICO)
- The GOP’s toxic policies let tainted food reach your plate (Salon)
- Wal-Mart downplays SNAP cuts (The City Wire)
- Why Won’t McDonald’s Really Lead? (New York Times)
- McBait and switch: McDonald’s health pledge contradicted by the fine print (The Hill)
- A turf war between Coke and Pepsi shows that neither is the “good” company (Salon)
- Big Food’s Proposed National Labeling Law for GMOs May Be Self-Serving (Take Part)
- GMO foes blast Scientific American editorial decrying labeling laws (Daily News)
- Should Chicago turn to Coca-Cola for city and health sustainability programs? (WBEZ)
- Back-to-school: Snacks get healthy; diet soda still OK (MSN News)
- PepsiCo to no longer call Naked juices ‘natural’ (USA Today)
- Oreo Cookies: The “Stuff” Ridiculous Lawsuits Are Made Of (Reason.com)
- That’s not natural or organic: How Big Food misleads (Salon)
- Nutrition Industry Sold Out To Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Kellogg, Hershey, and Other Junk Food Giants, Registered Dietitians Say (International Business Times)
- PepsiCo to no longer call Naked Juices ‘Natural’ (Associated Press)
- Food companies work to make it look natural (Associated Press)
- Nutrition, Inc. (The Progressive)
- Big Food’s Deep Pockets Have Infiltrated the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and RDs Won’t Stand for It (Diets in Review)
- AMA, Mayors Say Food Stamps Should Not Buy Soft Drinks (Food Safety News)
- The Right to Know About GMOs (Parents Magazine)
- Free market has real solutions to obesity crisis (Washington Examiner)
- In defense of dieticians: How best to deal with America’s fast food addiction? (Baltimore Brew)
- Fast talk about fast food (BaltimoreBrew)
- Food oversight curbs in spending bill outrage (New York Daily News)
- ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ sidesteps NEPA injunctions (Food Product Design)
- Corporate giant gets immunity (Tea Party Patriots)
- Road to ‘Drunkorexia’ (The Atlantic)
- Justice’s Plans for Event Tied to Pepsi Stir Outcry by Yale Alumni (New York Times)
- In Ads, Coke Confronts Soda’s Link to Obesity (New York Times)
- NAACP says New York soda restrictions will hurt minority-owned small businesses (NY Daily News)
- Michelle Obama’s Moves (The Nation)
- Snacks in the city getting a makeover (Chicago Tribune)
- Kraft warns on US food stamp cut plans (Financial Times)
- Sticky Mess (The Daily)
- First pink slime, now ‘meat glue’ (Scripps Howard News Service)
- Ammonia used in many foods, not just “pink slime” (Reuters)
- Are LFTB or ‘Pink Slime’ Safety Claims Meaningful to Consumers? (ABCNews.com)
- Critics pounce on Coke, Pepsi health initiatives (Chicago Tribune)
- Beverage-makers build playgrounds, draw criticism (Chicago Tribune)
- Food giants fight proposed nutrition guidelines (San Francisco Chronicle)
- The ‘heart attack proof” diet? (CNN Health)
- Sonic, Burger King, other fast-food chains selling alcohol (USA Today)
- For Liqueur, Fashionable Approach to Reach Women (New York Times)
- Pepsi Ventures Into Science Of Nutrition (Los Angeles Times)
- US Food and Drug Administration signals crackdown on caffeinated alcohol drinks (Canadian Medical Association Journal)
Documentaries
- Fed Up 2014
- Feeding Frenzy 2013
- Chow Down 2010
- Killer at Large 2008
- Two Angry Moms 2007
TV and Video
- School lunch politics (Al Jazeera)
- Are America’s Nutrition Professionals in the Pocket of Big Food? (Video Interview with Dr. Mercola)
- The politics of food in the United States (Al Jazeera)
- Stalled federal food safety regulations could pose health risks (KTVU News, San Francisco)
- Does Deregulation Let Corporations Kill You? (The Alyona Show)
- Who is to blame for the US obesity epidemic? (Al Jazeera)
- Pepsi’s Challenge (CNBC)
- The Last Heart Attack: Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports (CNN)
- Blackout in a Can (The Early Show, CBS)
- Dylan Ratigan Show on egg recall (MSNBC)
Radio
- Its All About Food (Responsible Eating and Living)
- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR with David Yosifon)
- Intelligent Medicine (Dr. Ronald Hoffman)
- Discussion of Food Stamps and Junk Food (Forum, KQED)
- Smarter Science of Slim with Jonathon Bailor (The Smarter Science of Slim)
- Today on Your Call: How can we make imported food safer? (KALW)
- The “Monsanto Protection Act” (Background Briefing, Syndicated Radio)
- In Deep with Angie Coiro (Nationally Syndicated)
- In Depth (KCBS, San Francisco)
- Straight, No Chaser (Heritage Radio Network)
- Food Sleuth Radio with Melinda Hemmelgarn (KPON)
- Underground Wellness with Sean Croxton (BlogTalkRadio)
Web Interviews
- Interview with Michele Simon, Eat Drink Politics (New York City Food Policy Center)
- Michele Simon: Cracking the Politics of Food (Organic Connections Magazine)
- Faces & Visions of the Food Movement: Michele Simon (Civil Eats)
- Q&A with Michele Simon — activist, attorney, badass (Ethicurean)
- Diet Detective Interview with Michele Simon (Syndicated)
- Q&A with Michele Simon by William Heisel, Part 1 (Reporting on Health)
- Q&A with Michele Simon by William Heisel, Part 2 (Reporting on Health)
- Perspectives: Food Marketing (Nourish)