Ten Corporate Business and Political Practices that Harm Health
How Do Big Food, Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Corporations Harm Health? This List Shows 10 Ways:
1. Make disease promoting products ubiquitous
2. Encourage retailers to promote their products
3. Supersize products
4. Target marketing to vulnerable populations
5. Price unhealthy products to promote sale and use
6. Create monopolies that reduce bargaining power of consumers and government
7. Support candidates who oppose public health policies
8. Lobby against laws that protect public health
Some of the companies that support the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a legislative group that takes corporate money to write business friendly laws. credit
9. Threaten to take jobs out of communities that oppose their policies
When New York State considered a tax on sugary beverages, PepsiCo threatened to move out of Purchase, New York.
10. Organize Astroturf groups to oppose public health policies
A television ad paid for the American Beverage Association on behalf of New Yorkers Against Unfair Taxes
For more, see: Lethal but Legal: Corporations, Consumption and Protecting Public Health by Nicholas Freudenberg, Oxford University Press, 2014.
