What has MAHA accomplished to date? Background (numbers refer to citations at the end) The Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) commission set an important goal, albeit one ironically similar to Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move” campaign: end childhood chronic disease.[1]…

What has MAHA accomplished to date?

Background (numbers refer to citations at the end) The Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) commission set an important goal, albeit one ironically similar to Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move” campaign: end childhood chronic disease.[1] Unfortunately, hallucinated references in the report suggested that at least some of it had been written by AI, thereby detracting from its scientific credibility.

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Setting the record straight: Calley Means Washington Post reporter, Tim Carman, contacted me for comment about a speech he heard made by RFK Jr’s top food advisor, Calley Means, in which Means made patently false charges about my work.  From Carman's report, MAHA Mondays at the Great American…

Setting the record straight: Calley Means

Washington Post reporter, Tim Carman, contacted me for comment about a speech he heard made by RFK Jr’s top food advisor, Calley Means, in which Means made patently false charges about my work.  From Carman's report, MAHA Mondays at the Great American State Fair miss one obvious problem: Means suggested her research had been bankrolled by sugar and tobacco industries, the latter of which 

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Grateful to the AU CLA media team for this generous write-up on my ASFS Individual Award for Food Studies Pedagogy: cla.auburn.edu/news/article... “Food and Power” has been my signature course for over a decade and it means a lot to see its interdisciplinary, experiential teaching recognized.

Very excited to have won the ASFS 2026 Pedagogy Award for my Auburn University HIST 3590 course, “Food and Power”! A true labor of love developed over a decade, across countries, communities, and food cultures. Grateful to my students, and can’t wait to teach it again!

New white paper on by @comedoergosum.bsky.social on how food labels operate as policy. I continue to read his work while thinking about the proposals to add labels to scholarly journals. bsky.app/profile/time...

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I’ve distilled over five years of policy engagement on food labeling into a 10-page white paper: “Food Labels as Policy”: aub.ie/FoodLabelWhitePaper It asks: what happens when governments try to govern through information? Please check it out and share with others! #FromLabelToTable

I’ve distilled over five years of policy engagement on food labeling into a 10-page white paper: “Food Labels as Policy”: aub.ie/FoodLabelWhitePaper It asks: what happens when governments try to govern through information? Please check it out and share with others! #FromLabelToTable

This post by AI-analyst @emollick.bsky.social very nicely summarizes my feelings about the state-of-the-art with AI and AI literacy: open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu... I highly encourage you to read it if you are grappling with education in the Age of AI.

Choosing to Stay Human

If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other:

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Today Denmark is discovering the limits of a cashless society. The main credit card system here is out. Restaurant and shop staff are nervously asking you if you carry cash or have a Danish-issued payment card. I feel sorry for foreigners and tourists trying to pay for anything today.

If you missed last week's excellent #FoodThinkers webinar by @comedoergosum.bsky.social on food labelling in the US, you can now watch the recording on our YouTube channel 👇 📺 eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

May 2026 Food Thinkers: Xaq Frohlich

The May Food Thinkers webinar, 'From Label To Table: A history of US FDA food labelling policy and the responsibilization of the consumer', delivered by Dr Xaq Frohlich on 12 May 2026.

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I’m very excited to share that my book, From Label to Table (@ucpress.bsky.social 2023) is now available in Korean translation from 따비 출판사. The Korean edition, titled 이것은 왜 오렌지주스인가, can be purchased through Kyobo here: product.kyobobook.co.kr/detail/S0002... 재미있고 유익한 책입니다. 꼭 읽으셔요 두번 읽으셔요 많관부!!

Fun fact: this is my book #FromLabelToTable translated into Korean. I just learned that it's out, but this bot found it first.

📖인문학 신간 봇@humanities-bot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

<이것은 왜 오렌지주스인가 - 식품 혐오와 열광 사이에서 식품 라벨 읽기> - 자크 프롤리히 (지은이), 김병순 (옮긴이), 김태호 (추천) 따비 | 2026-05-15 출간 | 29700원 알라딘 구매 링크 “오렌지 100%”와 “제로”는 정말 숫자 그대로의 의미일까? 『이것은 왜 오렌지주스인가』는 식품 라벨과 영양정보의 역사, FDA와 기업·소비자 사이의 힘겨루기, GMO·유기농·기능성 식품 논쟁까지 추적하며 정보화 시대의 식품 규제를 날카롭게 파헤치는 식문화 탐구서다.

If you missed my talk "From Label To Table: A history of US FDA food labelling policy and the responsibilization of the consumer" on the @foodpolicycitysg.bsky.social Food Thinkers webinar, you can watch it here on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BUZ.... Check it out! #FromLabelToTable

May 2026 Food Thinkers: Xaq Frohlich

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🚨TODAY, 4pm BST 🚨 At our #FoodThinkers webinar Xaq Frohlich @comedoergosum.bsky.social will talk about the decades-long shift from mandatory #foodstandards towards consumer labels as the primary tool for governing food markets in the US. Book your place 👇 www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Why do US policymakers so often reach for a food label rather than a rule? Tune in to our #FoodThinkers webinar with @comedoergosum.bsky.social on Tuesday 12 May at 4pm BST to hear more about what he calls the "informational turn" in US food policy www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

One of the more exciting professional accomplishments for me recently was that I received a Teaching Excellence Award from my home institution, Auburn University College of Liberal Arts: cla.auburn.edu/news/article... Teaching is what I love most about my job, so this recognition was extra special.

CLA presents 2026 faculty and staff awards

The College of Liberal Arts announces its 2026 faculty and staff award recipients.

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Looking forward to sharing my work on the history of food labeling at this great online seminar series, Food Thinkers, next week May 12th (4PM London time). Please join us for what I'm sure will be an interesting discussion!

Centre for Food Policy@foodpolicycitysg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We are delighted to announce that @comedoergosum.bsky.social will deliver our next #FoodThinkers webinar on Tuesday 12 May. Join us to hear Xaq take us through a history of US FDA food labelling policy and the responsibilization of the consumer. Sign up 👇 www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

ChatGPT’s new GPT Image 2.0 is getting a lot of attention for handling non-Western text in images. I tested it by asking it to remake my book cover in Korean, styled like a Korean nutrition label. The first result was strong and the follow-up edit shown here pretty spot on. I'm very impressed!

Very excited to be participating in this Birkbeck workshop on food packaging on May 8th: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event.... If you're in London and interested in food policy, I highly recommend you join us for what is going to be an interesting discussion. #foodpolicy

"Many people feel that AI is something being done to them rather than developed with them." https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-community-engagement?share_id=9271068

Excited to see our guest post, “What Happens When You Host an AI Café,” published in @spectrum.ieee.org : spectrum.ieee.org/ai-community.... We need more public conversations, and more voices at the table, about what we do—and don’t—want from AI. Grateful to co-authors Cheryl Seals and Joan Harrell.

Auburn University just shared a lovely piece about my spring research stay in Denmark at the University of Southern Denmark: wire.auburn.edu/content/ocm/.... I’m exploring regional food branding—New Nordic Cuisine; the Mediterranean diet—and helping to foster cultural exchange. 🇩🇰🇺🇸 #foodstudies

Are you reading the Nutrition Facts label correctly? I'm quoted in this nice, short piece on common misunderstandings about the label, written by @debbieharry.bsky.social for WebMD's health news section Nourish: www.webmd.com/diet/news/20.... Check it out! #fromlabeltotable #NutritionFacts

My college's media team wrote up a nice article about an AI Café event I help co-organize: cla.auburn.edu/news/article... . The idea for the event was to give people a platform to talk about AI which wasn't simply "for" or "against," but to think about what AI in the public interest might look like.

Auburn people: Join us next week for a "Science Café on AI" ☕🤖 Nov. 6th, 6:30–8PM Well Red Auburn What is AI? How is it reshaping our world? Join Auburn University experts for a lively Q&A! Free & open to the public! Free drinks for first 20 participants! More info: cla.auburn.edu/events/?trum...

Auburn people: Join us next week for a "Science Café on AI" ☕🤖 Nov. 6th, 6:30–8PM Well Red Auburn What is AI? How is it reshaping our world? Join Auburn University experts for a lively Q&A! Free & open to the public! Free drinks for first 20 participants! More info: cla.auburn.edu/events/?trum...

My book From Label to Table (@ucpress.bsky.social) turns 2 today! To celebrate I’m sharing a chapter-by-chapter teaching guide I created to explore how food labels shape politics, power & trust, good for Food Law, Nutrition Policy, STS or American Studies courses: www.xaqfrohlich.com/_files/ugd/f...

Wow! Just came across this very positive review of my book that was published last year by @susanaramirez.bsky.social , and it's in very good company with books by @haushoferl.bsky.social and @charlottebiltekoff.bsky.social . Definitely agree these three books read well together! #FromLabelToTable

Excited my book was reviewed in the Journal of American History! Liked this quote in Bryan McDonald's review: "This informative study provides compelling insight to help us understand the effects of legislation and standards making on the American food landscape": academic.oup.com/jah/article/....

From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age

Xaq Frohlich's From Label to Table is a detailed and readable history of how food labeling became a critical part of American food regulation and Americans

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I'm really nerding out on this great critical history of GenAI in the @criticalai-journal.bsky.social : read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/... Just what I needed to wrap my head around how AI can work for the humanities, and the need for more critical AI literacy and human-centered AI.

The Origins of Generative AI in Transcription and Machine Translation, and Why That Matters

Abstract. In this essay, written in dialogue with the introduction to this special issue, the authors offer a critical history of the development of large language models (LLMs). The essay's goal is t...

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My "Technology & Civilization" students kicked off our first AI-engaged assignment! They asked AI: “What Makes Me Human?” and shared their responses as artifacts on this collaborative Whiteboard. Try it yourself with the Assignment 1 prompt, posted here: auburn.instructure.com/courses/1654...