Food choices? Those are for the government to decide. That’s the message behind a lawsuit filed by San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu against “some of the country’s largest manufacturers of ultra-processed foods.”
It is the first government lawsuit in the nation against food companies. Chiu’s office claims ”the proliferation of ultra-processed foods in the American diet has been linked to a host of serious health conditions,” and has imposed “untold healthcare costs on Americans, as well as cities and states across the nation.” The lawsuit argues that the food industry is aware that its products have been making people sick, yet it continues “to devise and market increasingly addictive and harmful products in order to maximize profits.”…