Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines our Health

Live Broadcast / Interactive Debate with Michele Simon

July 8th 2010

Can we trust coporations to look out for our health when their sole focus is on the bottom line?



Michele Simon, author Appetite for Profit: How the food industry undermines our health and how to fight back is a public health lawyer and nutrition advocate, specializing in legal strategies and food industry tactics. She received her law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and her Master's Degree in public health from Yale University.

Topics include:

• The purpose and structure of corporations and how they cannot be entrusted with concern for human health over profits, 
• Food industry bait and switch PR campaigns that give the perception of change and concern for human health, 
• How to recognize food industry lobbyists, industry groups, and front groups for what they are.
• The expropriation of culture by food and fast-food corporations
• The push by the industry to hold individuals responsible for not believing the $36 billion worth of advertising that food corporations pay to influence them.