Friday, April 07, 2006
Food firms 'lukewarm on health'
Many of the world's 25 biggest food firms only pay lip service to their duty to help fight the global diet crisis, a report on the issue says.
It found that the response of most companies to World Health Organisation guidelines on fighting obesity, cancer and heart disease was "lukewarm".
Most firms appeared not to care "a jot", the report by London's City University suggested.
A spokesman said the UK food industry took its responsibilities seriously.
This isn't that surprising. So long as they're making huge profits because the majority of their customers will eat junk without questioning it, most food companies will do nothing. They need a few law suits against them. Even ones that they lose would start alarm bells ringing.
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posted by I at 9:22 am
