American Businesses Sell Obesity

From the New York Times Weekend Briefing:

Western food companies are aggressively expanding in developing nations, unleashing a marketing juggernaut that’s contributing to a new epidemic of chronic illnesses fed by soaring rates of obesity.
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In an era of fake news and “Make America Great Again” propaganda this struck me as an unusually honest statement to come from an American news publication.