Big Corporations Like Nestle Are Aggressively Making People Even Fatter Across the Globe

There are now more than 700 million obese people worldwide, 108 million of them children, reported the New York Times recently. In Brazil, food giant Nestle sends vendors door to door hawking its high-calorie junk food and giving customers a full month to pay for their purchases. Such a deal. Nestle calls the junk food hawkers, who are themselves obese, “micro-entrepreneurs.” Right.

Big Food is increasing targeting poor countries as “emerging markets” to please shareholders, supplanting their indigenous diets with fast food, packaged goods and soft drinks. In addition to creating obesity..READ MORE