Fighting the food fight
(WorldNews Health)

In this era of alternative `facts` and rising industrial sway in Washington, the well-being of Americans depends more than ever on financially and politically independent organizations that inform consumers and advocate for policy changes that help to keep all of us healthy. One of the most influential such groups is the Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest, or CSPI, led for more than four decades by Michael Jacobson, who recently stepped down as executive director to work in semiretirement as a senior scientist. Inspired by Ralph Nader and armed with a degree in microbiology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jacobson and two co-founders burst onto the...