The conflict between Public Health and 'Big Food': A Counterinsurgency?

Health Promot J Austr

Australian Geo-Spatial Health Laboratory, Health Research Institute, University of Canberra, ACT, Australia.

Published: July 2022

AI Article Synopsis

  • The commentary identifies parts of the Food Industry that prioritize profit over public health as an insurgency against well-being.
  • It suggests that the struggle involves addressing behaviors that lead to poor health and unhealthy choices.
  • The authors recommend using strategies similar to those in successful counter-insurgency efforts to promote health and challenge the industry's harmful practices.

Article Abstract

This commentary characterises as an insurgency those elements of the Food Industry seeking to retain and expand industry profit-making opportunity with scant regard to the effect on public health and wellbeing. Premised on a conflict in which the battlespace encompasses the drivers of (un)healthful behaviour, our view encourages opponents of Food Industry methods to consider an approach based on analogy of successful Counter-Insurgency strategies to a health promotion context.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hpja.544DOI Listing

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