AI Article Synopsis
- - The article explores the food industry's dual role in public health, highlighting how food companies contribute to health problems like obesity while also attempting to address them.
- - It critiques the academic public health discourse for generally overlooking the concept of corporate responsibility within this context.
- - The authors argue for a shared responsibility approach, suggesting that food companies need to reassess their moral obligations and actively promote health in society.
Article Abstract
In this article, we critically reflect on the responsibilities that the food industry has for public health. Although food companies are often significant contributors to public health problems (e.g., obesity, type 2 diabetes), the mere possibility of corporate responsibility for public health seems to be excluded in the academic public health discourse. We argue that the behavior of several food companies reflects a split corporate personality, as they contribute to public health problems and simultaneously engage in activities to prevent them. By understanding responsibility for population health as a shared responsibility, we reassess the moral role of the food industry from a forward-looking perspective on responsibility and ask what food companies can and should do to promote health.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5296687 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303601 | DOI Listing |
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