Unprecedented lawsuit against ultra-processed food companies — Big Food on trial

American citizen Bryce Martinez filed a lawsuit in December 2024, targeting the world’s biggest food companies for allegedly intentionally engineering food to be more addictive, including Coca-Cola, Kraft Heinz, and Nestlé. (Photos: Wikipedia)

Adèle Sulcas – 13 December 2024

The evidence on the harmful effects of UPFs on human health has grown dramatically in recent years, and continues to grow, with emerging evidence going beyond the negative impacts of foods high in fat, sugar, salt and refined carbohydrates, long known to be implicated in obesity, type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, cancers, cardiovascular disease, irritable bowel disease, dementia and other mental health conditions…

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