Nicholas Freudenberg is Distinguished Professor of Public Health at CUNY’s School of Public Health at Hunter College. He is also co-director of the New York City Food Policy Center at Hunter College. He has written or edited five books and more than 75 scientific articles on urban health policy, HIV prevention, community mobilization for health and the role of food policy in health. Recently, Nicholas wrote Lethal but Legal, a book outlining the ‘corporate consumption complex’. Tune into this week’s edition of What Doesn’t Kill You to hear Nicholas uncover the roots of corporate dominance, the problems with current tax laws, and externalization. Why should government be the only type of organization to monitor industry? How can a society overturn the ‘corporate consumption complex’ and expose the problems of globalization? Find out all of this and more on this week’s episode of What Doesn’t Kill You! Thanks to our sponsor, S. Wallace Edwards & Sons.

“Companies propose voluntary guidelines that are much looser than what public health professionals suggest, and then they don’t even follow those guidelines!” [14:35]

“Today many regulatory agencies lack the resources, but only government- as an independent voice- can monitor these industries.” [16:00]

— Nicholas Freudenberg on What Doesn’t Kill You