The Grand Food Bargain

 94 Notes

8 . the number had jumped to thirty-eight: CDC, “National Outbreak

Reporting System (NORS),” accessed June  7 ,  0  8 , https://wwwn.cdc.gov/nors
dashboard/.
83. just over two billion dollars: Johnson, “The Federal Food Safety Sys-
tem,” 9.
84. three hundred times less: Johnson, “The Federal Food Safety Sys-
tem,”  0 ; Office of Management and Budget, “Table 3 .—Outlays by Func-
tion and Subfunction:  96 – 0  3 ,” accessed January  0 ,  0  8 , https://www.white
house.gov/omb/historical-tables/.
8 . fifteen cents for food safety: ERS, “Table —Food and Alcoholic
Beverages: Total Expenditures ,” last modified January  6 ,  0  6 , https://www
.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-expenditures.aspx# 6634.

Chapter 9

. one-sidedness of our agricultural production: W. O. Atwater, “The
Food-Supply of the Future,” Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, November
 89 –April  89 , vol. 43 ,  89 ,  0 –. Cited in Andrew Smith, Food in America:
The Past, Present, and Future of Food, Farming, and the Family Meal, vol. 3
(Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO,  0  7 ),  4 – 60.
. dietary guidelines needed to appeal: Marion Nestle, Food Politics:
How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (Berkeley, CA: Univer-
sity of California Press,  0  3 ), ; “Case Study : The Politics of the Pyramid,”
in Laura Sims, The Politics of Fat: Food and Nutrition Policy in America
(Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe,  998 ).
3. already muzzled messages: US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
and US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), “Dietary Guide-
lines for Americans,  980 ,” February  980 , https://health.gov/dietaryguide
lines/ 980 thin.pdf; Elizabeth Frazão, “America’s Eating Habits: Changes and
Consequences,” ERS, AIB- 7  0 , May  999 , 4 , https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/down
load/ 976 /PDF.
4. politically palatable version: Sims, The Politics of Fat, Case Study ;
Nestle, Food Politics, –; for a more complete history of events that un-
folded, see Nestle, Food Politics, chap. .
. compared with sixteen peer countries: National Research Council,
U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health (Wash-
ington, DC: National Academies Press,  0  3 ), http://nap.edu/ 3497.
6. spend more on health care: Ibid.; Economic Research Service (ERS),
“Percent of Consumer Expenditures Spent on Food, Alcoholic Beverages,