""These companies created a public health crisis with the engineering and marketing of ultra-processed foods. They took food and made it unrecognizable and harmful to the human body. We must be clear that this is not about consumers making better choices. Recent surveys show Americans want to avoid ultra-processed foods, but we are inundated by them. These companies engineered a public health crisis, they profited handsomely, and now they need to take responsibility for the harm they have caused.""
""Like the tobacco industry, they knew their products make people very sick, but hid the truth from the public, profited from untold billions, and left Americans to deal with the consequences," Chiu said during a news conference Tuesday."
San Francisco filed a lawsuit against ten major corporations, including Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, General Mills, Kellogg, and Kraft Heinz, alleging they manufactured ultraprocessed foods engineered with chemicals to increase addictiveness and harm health. The complaint alleges these products contributed to chronic diseases such as cancer, depression, and type 2 diabetes, creating a public health crisis and imposing treatment costs on local governments. The city seeks financial compensation to cover municipal healthcare expenses tied to those illnesses. The lawsuit compares corporate conduct to the tobacco industry and asserts companies profited while concealing harms. The state has moved to define and phase out ultraprocessed foods in schools.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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