Congratulations to friend-to-Dietitians For Professional Integrity Bettina Elias Siegel of The Lunch Tray on playing an important role in getting McDonald's "education" (AKA: free marketing) out of schools. Elias Read More
May 13, 2016
Bettina Elias-Siegel
Mar 29, 2016
The Trouble with Free McDonald’s Breakfast at Public Schools
In today's The Lunch Tray post, Bettina Elias Siegel provides a very well-reasoned viewpoint on why McDonald's offering free breakfast at public schools throughout Houston on standardized testing days is Read More
Oct 30, 2015
More on McDonald’s “Educational” Documentary for Middle and High School Students
Two weeks ago, we shared a post by Bettina Elias Siegel in which she broke the news about 540 Meals, a documentary based on an experiment conducted in 2013 and 2014 by John Cisna, an Iowa high school science teacher who Read More
Oct 16, 2015
McDonald’s Markets to Teens, Calls it “Education”
Earlier this year, we shared the good news that the California Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics chapter removed McDonald's as a gold sponsor this year (while a great development, several other state-level AND chapters Read More
Dec 08, 2014
2014: A ‘Watershed’ Year for Food Politics?
As 2014 wraps up, Dana Woldow of San Francisco alternative newspaper Beyond Chron asked various experts -- including Dr. Marion Nestle, Michele Simon, Bettina Siegel, and Chef Ann Cooper -- if this was a watershed year Read More
Jul 08, 2014
Why We Must Always Ask: “Who Paid for This Study?”
Another day, another round of "connect the sponsorship funding dots." First up, from Dr. Marion Nestle's Food Politics blog: "Over the July 4th weekend, a reader sent a link to a paper about to be published in the Read More