How the food industry is shaping policy, in their favour

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. This language diverts attention away from the harmfulness of unhealthy food products. It also shifts the blame onto consumers.to reduce the likelihood that the government would adopt global recommendations to tackle rising obesity rates and improve population diets. These include restrictions on marketing of junk food to children and improvements to food labelling.

Industry tactics also increase the chances that the solutions favoured by the industry are adopted by the government. This is despite that the solutions preferred by industry, such as self-regulation of marketing to children, are much less effective than other solutions, such as mandatory restrictions on marketing unhealthy food products.that could be used to counter industry influence and interference in policymaking.

As a start, the government could make more information available to the public. This could be done through listing

 

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