Children around the world experience obesity, malnutrition and stunted growth as junk food companies exploit them for profit

Big food has multiplied its efforts 10-fold in the third world, targeting children.

According to this New York Times article, giant food corporations are showing no mercy in their efforts to exploit children. Interestingly, as I read the article on that page, an ad for Starbuck’s new “Chestnut Praline Latte” appeared in the sidebar. Oh, the irony.

The big food advertising onslaught continues to find its marks, around the clock. Deceptive advertising is bright and colorful, cheerily luring impressionable minds to crave harmful, addictive substances, while unsuspecting parents enable the problem.

Here are some of the tragic results, according to the Times:

• Advertising to children for sugary drinks and snacks has increased.
• Coke and Pepsi ads in Arab countries has risen to $400,000 annually, up from $40 million.
• Growth stunting of children has increased in many countries.
• Children are found to be malnourished yet obese.
• Per capita use of Coke and Pepsi has tripled in Egypt.
• One third of teens in Egypt are now overweight.
• McDonald’s restaurants in Egypt has increased from four locations in 1994 to 56 locations in 2013.

Thank you, big food, for your efforts to destroy the world’s children, make them sick and weak. This will further burden the health care systems and, in general, make life less sustainable on the planet.

Don’t feed your children processed, sugary food. Don’t fall for the scam that lines the pockets of corporate executives, while stealing precious health from innocent children.

How do the fat cats sleep at night? There are only two possible answers to this question: 1) They are delusional about their products 2) They are sociopaths.