Peeling back Food Labels

In this episode, we’ll be speaking with Danielle Nierenberg. Danielle is the President of Food Tank, which she co-founded with Bernard Pollack in 2013 to build a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. She's the recipient of the 2020 Julia Child Award.Danielle contributed to the fourth in a series of pieces produced by Edible Communities for publication in Edible magazines across the US and Canada and at ediblecommunities.com. The piece, by Elena Seely, content director for FoodTank is titled, “In Labels We Trust: how food certification labels, seals, and standards can help eaters make better choices.” It’s an explainer and guide, leading us into a fuller understanding of how to read food labels not just on packages, but on produce, meat, and poultry in order to eat in a way that supports the safety of the growers and producers of our food, our health and safety as eaters, and the health of the planet.