How junk food giants are trying to take over the world – Alex Andreou asks Eduardo J. Gómez

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Despite governments pushing to make people healthier, the junk food industry continues to thrive. How do the corporations in charge continue to thrive – and hold power the world over? Alex Andreou is joined in The Bunker by Eduardo J. Gómez, author of Junk Food Politics: How Beverage and Fast Food Industries Are Reshaping Emerging Economies, to find out. • “Junk food is an image of wealth which is very appealing to the upper-middle income class; having access to something that is popular in the global West is seen as a social status symbol.” - Eduardo J. Gómez • “These multinational corporations fear declining markets and sales in a lot of Western industrialised nations where more people are knowledgeable about how unhealthy these food products are.” – Eduardo J. Gómez www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Alex Andreou. Producer: Eliza Davis Beard. Audio production: Simon Williams. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Artwork by James Parrett. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:16.3	junk food might be tough to define but you know it when you see it once
1:21.0	wrote the food journalist and author Mark Bitman, the drive to eat better and be
1:26.2	healthier to curb the proportion of processed foods in our diet is well trodden ground in
1:31.5	our media and culinary culture.
1:33.6	What you may not know, however, is that its consumption is increasingly, rapidly,
1:39.4	rampantly even going up in the so-called emerging economies. My guest today is an
1:45.4	associate professor in the director of the Institute of Health Policy and
1:48.7	Politics in the College of Health at Lehi University, whose latest book,
1:54.4	Junk Food Politics, tackles this precise issue.
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