Blood, Sweat and $1 Billion A Day: Oxfam's 'Behind the Brands' Campaign Targets Food Industry Giants. If you’re like most organic foodies, you’ve got a laundry list of complaints against the world’s ten biggest food conglomerates (Associated British Foods, Coca Cola, Danone, General Mills, Kellogg, Mars, Mondelez, Nestlé, Pepsico and Unilever).
They dominate the marketplace with foods and beverages excessively high in sugar, salt, artificial ingredients and genetically modified organisms. They use misleading advertising to lure children and prey on the world’s poorest demographics. But the issues don’t stop there, as Oxfam details in its newest campaign: ‘Behind the Brands’. Processed food and coronary capitalism - Opinion.
Frankfurt, Germany - A systematic and broad failure of regulation is the elephant in the room when it comes to reforming today's Western capitalism.
Yes, much has been said about the unhealthy political-regulatory-financial dynamic that led to the global economy's heart attack in 2008 (initiating what Carmen Reinhart and I call "The Second Great Contraction"). But is the problem unique to the financial industry, or does it exemplify a deeper flaw in Western capitalism? Consider the food industry, particularly its sometimes malign influence on nutrition and health.
Obesity rates are soaring around the entire world, though, among large countries, the problem is perhaps most severe in the United States.
Food politics. Lobbying of the food industry. Food production. Organic food industry. Fast food industry. Politics of obesity.