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IT IS ABOUT TIME that Wall Street holds these food companies accountable! A coalition of shareholders, who collectively manage over $3 trillion in assets, is asking major food and beverage companies to increase transparency on how their products impact consumers’ health. The group said this would be a “first step” towards corporations taking accountability for their “significant impact on public health.” Investors asked top executives from Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Kraft Heinz, General Mills, Mondelez International and Kellanova to adopt an internationally accepted nutrition rating or scoring system that discloses the healthiness of their products in a letter released Thursday. The letter also urged the companies to increase transparency by annually disclosing “healthiness metrics” for their products. https://lnkd.in/eW86Q-cV #organic #organicfood #wallst #cpg
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Jeff Krinsky
3w
I can feel a societal shift, it’s about time…shareholders can make it happen. 👏🍽️🙏🏼🤑
Canada is already triggering a mandatory national symbol for foods that exceed set levels for SUGAR, SODIUM, SATURATED FATS…https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/food-nutrition/nutrition-labelling/front-package.html
Very cool, but it’s not just about telling the truth on labels and transparency… the whole food system needs to be revamped to remove all the ultra-processing, added sugars, seed oils, etc.
And let’s add the single use plastic packaging to the offense of what is being marketed as food. The manufacturers degrade the environment as well as human wellbeing.
Should have the same warning labels used on cigarette packs
Ivo Petroff
1w
Ha! Speaking of…
GLP-1 drugs are going to hold them accountable as junk food is the first foods people give up on them
Dawn Morris
3w
We all owe RFK, Jr a huge thanks for working tirelessly to get this issue into the national spotlight, finally.
Madeira
3win the meantime, farmers, educaters, doctors, universities and doctors including nutritionists as well as entities such as IFOAM - Organics International / IFOAM - Organics International, Rodale Institute and others who promote organic and regenerative agriculture must publish and share, in layman terms, the good and the bad. Some “technical” foods are great for extreme/ technical cases and evironments, usually as temporary or ocasional source of sustenance … but aren’t sustainable for the consumer and/or environment. The green revolution, like all acts in History, was remarkable in capacity to produce food, but today know the negative impacts on the environment and soil (as a living organism to facilitate nutrients to plants rather than just “dirt” to hold roots and pant structure) of the synthetic chemical agriculture and knowing this (where even Dutch farms say “fertilizers are good for the Grandfather, terrible for the grandson) as well as studies by Rothamsted Research which indicate soil destruction through sunthetic fertilizers, we must, as a global society (re)develop (new) farming methodologies, where “taking a step backwards” mustn’t be seen as undoing development and knowledge develops but lessons learnt.