The article critiques the global food system, which, originally designed to avert famine by mass-producing cheap calories, now incites health crises with poor diets contributing to over 12 million deaths annually. Malnutrition, in various forms, affects one in three individuals, particularly marginalized populations. The shift towards ultra-processed foods exacerbates this issue. Additionally, the food system generates significant greenhouse gas emissions. The article argues for urgent reform, highlighting that merely tweaking the existing system will not suffice to address public health and planetary health adequately.
Our food system is killing us... A quarter of all adult deaths globally... are due to poor diets. Malnutrition in all its forms is by far the biggest cause of ill-health.
Ultra-processed foods are implicated in as many as one in seven premature deaths in some countries... every country is affected by malnutrition, but it is the poorest, most marginalised people who are most likely to become malnourished.
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