Dr. Marion Nestle and Dr. Mal Nesheim on " Pet Food Politics " and " What Pets Eat "

Some of my personal heroes are joining us at PetHobbyist.com's 11th Annual Chat Month this year, and leading the pack is our opening night guest, Dr. Marion Nestle, the Paulette Goddard professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University and a visiting professor in the College of Agriculture's nutritional sciences division at Cornell University, as well as author of "Pet Food Politics" and the forthcoming "What Pets Eat."



She'll be joined by her "What Pets Eat" co-author, retired animal nutritionist, professor of nutritional sciences and provost emeritus at Cornell University Dr. Mal Nesheim.



Their chat is scheduled for Sunday, February 1, at 10 PM Eastern, in the Auditorium chat room on PetHobbyist.com.



The last two years have made us acutely aware that all is not as it should be when it comes to the safety and wholesomeness of our food supply. Dr. Nestle has been one of the leading voices in the movement to reform how we deal with food and nutrition, and one of the first on the human side to see that the implications of the pet food recall extended far beyond "just pets."



Pet Connection recently profiled Dr. Nestle and "Pet Food Politics" in its syndicated weekly newspaper feature, and we have a lengthy interview with her here as well.



Photo of Marion Nestle by Pet Connection Director of Photography Morgan Ong; photo of Mal Nesheim courtesy of Cornell University.

Comments

[Carol V]

Dr Nestle is surely one of my heroes...I had just finished reading "Pet Food Politics" when the melamine in formula happened (no surprise here)....she was right on...I even referred to her and her book when I emailed whitehouse.gov with my concerns with food safety "off the radar"...Having lived through the PFR of 2007 day by day praying my kitties would survive (and I not poison them again) it was great knowing someone was watching this and trying to tell those not affected to start "roaring"! And that the human food supply was no safer...It is all the same..it is food!