"The city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against some of the nation's top food manufacturers on Tuesday, arguing that ultraprocessed food from the likes of Coca-Cola and Nestle are responsible for a public health crisis. City Attorney David Chiu named 10 companies in the lawsuit, including the makers of such popular foods as Oreo cookies, Sour Patch Kids, Kit Kat, Cheerios and Lunchables. The lawsuit argues that ultraprocessed foods are linked to diseases such as Type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease and cancer."
""They took food and made it unrecognizable and harmful to the human body," Chiu said in a news release. "These companies engineered a public health crisis, they profited handsomely, and now they need to take responsibility for the harm they have caused." Ultraprocessed foods include candy, chips, processed meats, sodas, energy drinks, breakfast cereals and other foods that are designed to "stimulate cravings and encourage overconsumption," Chiu's office said in the release. Such foods are "formulations of often chemically manipulated cheap ingredients with little if any whole food added," Chiu wrote in the lawsuit."
San Francisco filed a lawsuit naming ten major food companies and alleging that ultraprocessed foods are responsible for a public health crisis. The complaint links these products to Type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease and cancer and asserts that companies engineered foods to stimulate cravings and encourage overconsumption. The listed products include candy, chips, processed meats, sodas, energy drinks and many breakfast cereals, described as formulations of chemically manipulated cheap ingredients with little whole food. A CDC report found most Americans obtain more than half their calories from ultraprocessed foods, and national figures have campaigned to restrict such products in nutrition programs.
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