Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health and Professor of Sociology at New York University. 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.

She is the author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism and What to Eat.

Her most recent book is Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine, published by University of California Press in 2008.

You can read her Food Politics blog here:

http://www.foodpolitics.com