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Alissa Hamilton

ALISSA HAMILTON is an author and an expert on food processing and marketing. Her first book, Squeezed: What You Don’t Know about Orange Juice, sparked a series of class-action lawsuits in the U.S. against orange-juice companies for their deceptive marketing practices. An authority on food labelling issues, Hamilton has wrote articles for various magazines, academic journals and online media sources. She has spoken at TEDxCambridge on the subject of “How Do You Eat?”; has been a guest on The Dr. Oz Show; has appeared as part of the consumer watchdog report on ABC's World News with Diane Sawyer; and has been featured and quoted in The Guardian, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, the New York Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Wired, NPR, Martha Stewart Living Radio and others. A 2008–2009 Food and Society Fellow with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, she continues to work with current and former fellows to advocate for more transparency on the production of processed foods. Alissa lives in Toronto.

Books by Alissa Hamilton