New research published in the journal Agriculture and Human Values reveals that global food and health policy is controlled by a "complex web of ultra-processed food producers" that include Coca-Cola, Nestlé and PepsiCo.
The reason why farmers are under the knife by the climate brigade for "polluting" the planet is because the large, multinational corporations that produce most of the unhealthiest "food" on the planet are steering agriculture off a cliff for their own benefit, and that of other "stakeholders" like the World Economic Forum (WEF) that is leading a transformation from a solely corporate-dominated food and health model to a "multi-stakeholder" model.
The multi-stakeholder model has unleashed all sorts of new initiatives, partnerships, platforms and roundtables devoted to implementing new global "solutions" to agricultural "problems."
Klaus Schwab is behind all this, as is the other usual suspect Bill Gates. These globalist architects think their ideas will manifest a final solution for the planet that enshrines them at the top and everyone else at rock bottom where they will be left to consume bugs and misery.
"Our results suggest that we now have a corporate-aligned, multi-stakeholder-led, global food governance system disproportionately organized by specific actors with common interests in advancing the ultra-processed food industry," said Scott Slater, the study's lead author from Australia's Deakin University, to The Defender, a project associated with 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
"And, the key actors include executives from Unilever, Nestlé, PepsiCo, The Coca-Cola Company, WEF, Mars, DSM, Rabobank, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and Danone."
The world is a clown show
It makes no logical sense for any of the aforementioned multinational giants to be controlling food and health policy seeing as how their ultra-processed offerings are largely responsible for the chronic illness epidemic.
Obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and mental health disorders are among the most common health problems caused by ultra-processed food. Biodiversity loss, microplastics and other environmental threats are also exacerbated by the production and distribution of ultra-processed foods.
What Slater and his team uncovered about all this shows that the fox is guarding the henhouse on matters related to nutrition and health, "rais[ing] important public health and governance concerns," he said.
"Multi-stakeholder institutions potentially hide the ultra-processed food industry's harmful human and planetary health effects, in addition to providing industry executives a privileged 'seat at the table' in global food-governance decision-making spaces," he added.
In order to fix all this, Slater says that structural and regulatory changes are necessary to stop these powerful actors from maintaining a stranglehold over food system health and sustainability. This includes "urgently needed global coordinated responses to address the harms of ultra-processed foods," he says.
In total, Slater and his team analyzed 45 different institutions that are working with multilateral institutions, including those at the United Nations (UN) such as the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). They found that the following have boards and steering committees that are entirely controlled by manufacturers and retailers of ultra-processed foods:
-Sustainable Food Policy Alliance (founded by Danone, Mars Inc, Unilever and Nestlé)
-Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform (founded by Danone, Nestlé and Unilever)
-Consumer Goods Forum's Forest Positive Coalition
-FReSH (Food Reform for Sustainability and Health Initiative, founded by WBCSD)
Other players analyzed were found to have between half and two-thirds of their leadership positions held by manufacturers, retailers and other businesses that profit from the production and sale of ultra-processed foods.
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