Question

research the big food food system and golbal health?

bid food

Answer 1

To better understand who is responsible for these nutritional failures, it is first necessary to study.

A) Big Food-

i) Big Food by which we refer to the multinational food and beverage companies with huge and concentrated market power

ii) In the United States, the ten largest food companies control over half of all food sales and worldwide this proportion is aproximetaly 15% and rising day by day.

iii) More than half of global soft drinks are produced by the large multinational companies.

iv) Three-fourths of world food sales involve processed foods, for which the largest manufacturers hold over a third of the global market.

v) The world's food system is not a competitive marketplace of small producers but an oligopoly.

2) Food System-

i) Global food systems are not meeting the world's dietary needs.

ii) About one billion people are hungry, while two billion people are overweight.

iii) In India, for example, is experiencing rises in both: since 1995 an additional 65 million people are malnourished, and one in five adults is now overweight.

iv) This coexistence of food insecurity and obesity may seem like a paradox but over- and undernutrition reflect two facets of malnutrition.

v) Underlying both is a common factor: food systems are not driven to deliver optimal human diets but to maximize profits.

vi) For people living in poverty, this means either exclusion from development or eating low-cost, highly processed foods lacking in nutrition and rich in sugar, salt, and saturated fats.

3) Global Health-

i) Global health professionals have been slow to respond to such nutritional threats in developed countries and even slower still in developing countries.

ii) We now have considerable evidence that food and beverage companies use similar tactics to undermine public health responses such as taxation and regulation, an unsurprising observation given the flows of people, funds, and activities between Big Tobacco and Big Food.

iii) Yet theGlobal health response to Big Food has been minimal.

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