Big Food vs. the People

Jul 31, 2026 · 4:04 PM UTC ·8 min read · 0 reactions · 0 comments · 3 views

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Children, with limited decision-making power, are particularly vulnerable to this. Legislators and government officials have worked to rein in this public health crisis by enacting laws that require food companies to be transparent about their ingredients and limit the advertising of unhealthy foods. In public, the world’s biggest and richest food companies such as Coca Cola, PepsiCola, and Mondelez say they want to be part of the solution.

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▪Children, with limited decision-making power, are particularly vulnerable to this.
▪Legislators and government officials have worked to rein in this public health crisis by enacting laws that require food companies to be transparent about their ingredients and limit the advertising of unhealthy foods.
▪In public, the world’s biggest and richest food companies such as Coca Cola, PepsiCola, and Mondelez say they want to be part of the solution.

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Big Food vs. The People NEWSROOM: FOOD SYSTEMS Co-published with Lucy Jones for Lighthouse Reports CREDITS Thin Lei Win, Emmanuel Freudenthal, Monica Camacho, Sarasvati Nagesh Thuppadolla, Elena DeBre, Tessa Pang, Wael Eskandar, Lu Min Lwin, Viktoriia Maksymova, Charles Boutaud, Margot Gibbs and Beatriz Ramalho da Silva with Alexandria Bordas, Andrea Rincón, Andrew Gregory, Ankit Raj, Armando Talamantes, Ed Wanderley, Edier Buitrago, Gloria Riva, ⁨Guilherme Cavalcanti, Irene van den Berg⁩, ⁨Jahnavi Sen, ⁨Jesse Kathan, ⁨João Peres⁩, ⁨Kennia Velazquez⁩, ⁨Laura Martínez Mejía, Maria Martha Bruno, Nicoletta Dentico, Paulina Macias Ortega, Philip Baker, Rodrigo Oliveira, Scott Slater, Thalita Pires July 22, 2026 We expose Big Food’s 239 lawsuits against life-saving policies Bad diets kill…

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