The 'F' in FDA Is Silent" — The State of Food Policy with Helena Bottemiller-Evich
The Resetter Podcast with Dr. Mindy
Dr. Mindy Pelz
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
If you've been trying to figure out what's actually happening with our food system right now — what's rhetoric, what's real, and what you need to know, this is the episode you've been waiting for.
Award winning food journalist, Helena Bottemiller Evich has covered food policy in Washington for over 15 years. She's the founder of the Food Fix newsletter and the host of the new podcast American Dish, and she has a rare gift: she can separate the noise from the action in a news cycle that makes both very hard to tell apart.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we get into today's episode, I need to tell you about something I literally have never done before. |
| 0:07.1 | So I do a lot of events. I speak on a lot of stages and I absolutely love it. |
| 0:11.8 | It's actually one of my favorite things to do because I love interacting with the audience |
| 0:16.3 | and seeing the ahas in people's face when they fall in love with their bodies again. |
| 0:21.5 | But there is something fundamentally different about an event that I'm doing this June. |
| 0:27.8 | And I want you to hear it directly from me. |
| 0:30.5 | It's my event. |
| 0:31.5 | There's the first thing. |
| 0:32.4 | I've created it. |
| 0:33.6 | And it's called the Live Like a Girl Retreat. |
| 0:36.4 | And I'm not going to be on stage behind a podium, delivering a keynote, and then disappearing. |
| 0:42.0 | I want to get to know you. |
| 0:43.2 | I want to hear what your concerns are. |
| 0:45.5 | I want to be there to help you. |
| 0:46.9 | So I'm going to be sitting with you at dinner by the fire in the breakout rooms for a full |
| 0:53.7 | three days. It is June 11th through June 13th, |
| 0:58.5 | and it is at 1440 Multiversity in Santa Cruz, California, in these beautiful redwoods. And I'm going to be |
| 1:06.4 | present with you in a way I simply cannot be anywhere else. It is a small group of people. We are going to |
| 1:13.8 | have real conversations. We are going to have real connection. I will be doing a book signing, |
| 1:19.3 | pictures if that's your thing, and we will be connecting and making sure that you are moving |
| 1:25.9 | in the right direction with your health. |
| 1:29.0 | So you can go to Dr. Mindy Pels.com backslash events and there are rooms available. |
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