UN expert: Large corporations have flooded the global food market with cheap, nutrient-poor foods

‘We all know that corporations are in business to make money, but they also attempt to do so by responding to public needs – and public pressure. So far, at least one United Nations food expert doesn’t think corporations that rely on profits from selling junk foods with low- or no nutritional value are not being pressured enough to clean up their act. And she thinks his agency ought to step in.
The Associated Press reports that the expert, Hilal Elver, the UN’s special representative on the right to food, said recently that rising industrialized food production combined with liberal trade laws and other trappings of globalization were combining to allow Big Food to deliver cheap, nutrient-poor foods to the market.
The choice is forcing the world’s poor to choose between what is best for them economically and what is best for them from a nutritional standpoint, effectively violating their right to decent food.’
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