The World Health Organization has sounded the alarm: Big Food, the multi-national food industry, is even more dangerous than the tobacco and alcohol industries. The major food corporations have started to conquer poor countries and press disease-causing junk food on malnourished mothers and their children – instant noodles, cookies, potato chips, soft drinks rich in sugar. The result: a pandemic of obesity – in China alone 1.3 million people died of diabetes in 2016. Undoubtedly Big Food reaps huge profits at the expense of the poorest of the poor. This must be combated – but how?Thomas Kruchem uncovers how Big Food profits from emergency relief and muzzles critics, how the big corporations finance UN organizations, relief organizations such as Oxfam as well as scientists with millions of dollars. As a conclusion he suggests ten concrete political steps that can be taken against these business practices."Thomas Kruchem touches on a sore point. He has done research right where the new borders between corporations and citizens are drawn."(Biraj Patnaik, leader of the Indian Right-to-Food Campaign and chief consultant of the Supreme Court)"A disturbing and alarming book. It asks all of us to finally put a stop to the scandalous business practices of the food and soft-drink multinational corporations."(Thomas Gebauer, CEO of medico international e.V., co-founder of the "International Campaign to Ban Landmines" and co-recipient of the 1997 Peace Nobel Prize)"In the post-factual age the critical public desperately needs books like these."(PD Dr. Dr. med. Sabine Gabrysch, Assistant Director of the Institute of Public Health at the University of Heidelberg)
