Michael Moss
@mossmichael.bsky.social
#1 NYT bestselling author of Salt Sugar Fat, Pulitzer Prize for some bad burgers, have killer keynote will travel. More about me at MossBooks.us
Big Food squashes lawsuit seeking to hold it accountable for our trouble with food. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Kraft, other companies defeat test lawsuit over ultra-processed foods
Kraft , Mondelez , Coca-Cola and several other major food companies on Monday succeeded in winning the dismissal of a lawsuit that accused them of designing harmful "ultra-processed" foods addictive to children.
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August 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Big Food squashes lawsuit seeking to hold it accountable for our trouble with food. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
The reader comments on this are so interesting. “Stop Freaking Out About Seed Oils” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/o...
Opinion | Stop Freaking Out About Seed Oils
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August 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The reader comments on this are so interesting. “Stop Freaking Out About Seed Oils” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/o...
When Warren Buffett bought Kraft/Heinz, he deflected concern about people avoiding processed food for better health by saying there will always be lots of folks who need/want these products. Is that no longer true? Is there data on this? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/b...
As Consumers Lose Their Appetite, Food Brands Fight to Keep Wall St. Happy
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July 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
When Warren Buffett bought Kraft/Heinz, he deflected concern about people avoiding processed food for better health by saying there will always be lots of folks who need/want these products. Is that no longer true? Is there data on this? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/b...
From one of the smartest thinkers on food that I know: The Real Reason Our Food System Is Broken open.substack.com/pub/drjessic...
The Real Reason Our Food System Is Broken
Ingredient swaps won’t change a food system engineered to maximize profit, not health.
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July 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
From one of the smartest thinkers on food that I know: The Real Reason Our Food System Is Broken open.substack.com/pub/drjessic...
4 in 10 people have fatty liver disease, and other things you might not know about sugar. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This Is Your Body on Sugar (Gift Article)
Excessive consumption of sugar can increase the risk of health problems. Here's what that looks like in the body.
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July 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
4 in 10 people have fatty liver disease, and other things you might not know about sugar. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Don’t let the b roll of me on my cello put you off. This is a quite good examination by PBS of some of the hijinks at play in your grocery store, including one of my favorites to parse: the outsized role that tobacco played in creating icons like Lunchables.
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June 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Don’t let the b roll of me on my cello put you off. This is a quite good examination by PBS of some of the hijinks at play in your grocery store, including one of my favorites to parse: the outsized role that tobacco played in creating icons like Lunchables.
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The contractor fixing our house is so good he gets the best lunches I can make, the least I can do.
June 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The contractor fixing our house is so good he gets the best lunches I can make, the least I can do.
Brad Lander Doesn’t Belong in Jail. Does He Belong in City Hall? Yes, says Ezra Klein www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...
Opinion | Brad Lander Doesn’t Belong in Jail. Does He Belong in City Hall?
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June 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Brad Lander Doesn’t Belong in Jail. Does He Belong in City Hall? Yes, says Ezra Klein www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...
A devastating take down of the man driving RFK Jr on processed food: Says his former boss:” He is an opportunist, peddling junk science to make millions.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
The Dizzying Rise of MAHA Warrior Calley Means, RFK Jr.’s Right-Hand Man
One of the primary architects of the Make America Healthy Again takeover of the federal health apparatus, Means has risen to power in part on the strength of his personal narrative: he was a Big Food ...
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June 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A devastating take down of the man driving RFK Jr on processed food: Says his former boss:” He is an opportunist, peddling junk science to make millions.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
I’ve given this talk in London, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam and now Bavaria where the kids are alright and bracing themselves for the onslaught of the American junk diet and its health consequences.
May 16, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I’ve given this talk in London, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam and now Bavaria where the kids are alright and bracing themselves for the onslaught of the American junk diet and its health consequences.
Congratulations to the @baltimorebanner.com in my wife’s hometown for this superb and important journalism www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Baltimore Banner wins Pulitzer Prize for coverage of overdose crisis
The Baltimore Banner was awarded the Pulitzer Prize on Monday for groundbreaking local journalism that exposed Baltimore as the deadliest large city in the nation for drug overdoses.
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May 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Congratulations to the @baltimorebanner.com in my wife’s hometown for this superb and important journalism www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Arizona governor vetoes GOP push to bar buying sodas with food stamps, calling it punitive, misguided and a distraction from real ways to improve public health. tucson.com/news/state-r...
Gov. Hobbs vetoes Arizona's SNAP soda bill
Gov. Katie Hobbs rejected the proposed ban on food stamp recipients using their benefits to buy soda a week after Republican lawmakers brought Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new head
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April 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Arizona governor vetoes GOP push to bar buying sodas with food stamps, calling it punitive, misguided and a distraction from real ways to improve public health. tucson.com/news/state-r...
These are the people who grow our food, process our meat, care for our sick, repair our homes, pay huge amounts into Social Security knowing they’ll never get it back …… www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
Pressuring Migrants to ‘Self-Deport,’ White House Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers (Gift Article)
By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services.
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April 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
These are the people who grow our food, process our meat, care for our sick, repair our homes, pay huge amounts into Social Security knowing they’ll never get it back …… www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
Tempted by the wellness gurus pushing you to eat more protein? @alicegcallahan probes the science and finds it less than convincing.
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Is More Protein Better for You? Fact-Checking Claims on Social Media (Gift Article)
It’s a common refrain on social media. We fact-checked this and five other big protein claims circulating online.
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April 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Tempted by the wellness gurus pushing you to eat more protein? @alicegcallahan probes the science and finds it less than convincing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/w...
Big Food has much bigger worries than RFK Jr’s focus on food dyes: snacking is down from what could be a perfect storm for them, the WSJ reports.
March 28, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Big Food has much bigger worries than RFK Jr’s focus on food dyes: snacking is down from what could be a perfect storm for them, the WSJ reports.
This month in history, my investigation of processed food hit the #1 NYTimes rankings for all nonfiction with these words: “In their hands, salt. sugar, and fat … are not nutrients as much as weapons — weapons they deploy to defeat competitors, certainly, but also to keep us coming back for more.”
March 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
This month in history, my investigation of processed food hit the #1 NYTimes rankings for all nonfiction with these words: “In their hands, salt. sugar, and fat … are not nutrients as much as weapons — weapons they deploy to defeat competitors, certainly, but also to keep us coming back for more.”
It’s always their attempted coverup that sinks pols: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
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March 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
It’s always their attempted coverup that sinks pols: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
A quarter century ago, Big Food met secretly to weigh its culpability in chronic disease and here’s my inside reporting on why any big reforms will be very difficult to pull off: www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/m...
The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food (Gift Article)
Inside the hyperengineered, savagely marketed, addiction-creating battle for American “stomach share.”
www.nytimes.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
A quarter century ago, Big Food met secretly to weigh its culpability in chronic disease and here’s my inside reporting on why any big reforms will be very difficult to pull off: www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/m...
Kennedy blames poor eating for measles death, refuted by local authorities: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...
Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories
In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak.
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March 11, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Kennedy blames poor eating for measles death, refuted by local authorities: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...
RFK Jr. promised transparency and and an ambitious effort to rid America of chronic disease. Instead, strife and a measles outbreak have dominated his first weeks as health secretary.
March 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
RFK Jr. promised transparency and and an ambitious effort to rid America of chronic disease. Instead, strife and a measles outbreak have dominated his first weeks as health secretary.
It’s worth reading the comments, for a look at the deep skepticism on things USDA. www.thelunaticfarmer.com/blog/2/27/20...
BIRD FLU AND THE USDA — The Lunatic Farmer
By now many of you may know that Sec. of Ag Brooke Rollins rolled out a 5-point plan to reduce egg prices yesterday. It's pretty much the same old same old, except for…
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March 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It’s worth reading the comments, for a look at the deep skepticism on things USDA. www.thelunaticfarmer.com/blog/2/27/20...
A fast-spreading mystery illness linked to bats has killed scores of people in Congo, with nearly half dying within 48 hours of showing symptoms, the WHO says
February 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A fast-spreading mystery illness linked to bats has killed scores of people in Congo, with nearly half dying within 48 hours of showing symptoms, the WHO says
Just in case you were thinking of opening a restaurant, this reminder of how fragile an enterprise that is.
17-Year-Old Basement Sushi Restaurant Is Done in Tribeca — and More Closings
All the city’s shuttered restaurants in February
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February 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Just in case you were thinking of opening a restaurant, this reminder of how fragile an enterprise that is.
My sister was born in Fairbanks, before AK was a state. So maybe I’m an honorary local, ha.
As someone born in Alaska—thank you!
February 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
My sister was born in Fairbanks, before AK was a state. So maybe I’m an honorary local, ha.