Food companies sell products that are less healthy in poorer countries, says report

What do you expect, it’s all about profits first. These companies have to run in a psychopathic manner to increase profits constantly to please shareholders. It’s the modern way and won’t end unless we change everything and that won’t happens because money talks and money equates to power and control.

Unhealthy food is also extremely long lasting. Bacteria literally don't know what to do with sugar water and fat.

TaiwanChina:

Bacteria literally don't know what to do with sugar water and fat.

Try eating a lot of sugar and then see what happens to your teeth if you stop brushing them every day.

Eyes rolling.

products that are less healthy 

I can not imagine any version of the products described that are healthy in the first place, so "less healthy" is a pretty meaningless term.

The same applies to pharmaceutical drugs that are banned in the West and then sold in third-world countries.

wallace

The same applies to pharmaceutical drugs that are banned in the West and then sold in third-world countries.

There are also drugs that routinely used in Africa, are safe and effective (but with little profit margin), but are vilified in the West for political reasons. So the picture is not always that clear. Also, does that brownish soda concoction in Mexico not contain real sugare, while in the US it contains the much worse corn fructose?

its capitalism in its purest form.

all is about greed and profit.

no science behind.

Pukey2Today 09:35 am JST

TaiwanChina:

Bacteria literally don't know what to do with sugar water and fat.

Try eating a lot of sugar and then see what happens to your teeth if you stop brushing them every day.

Different concentration

Eyes rolling.

Indeed

"Less healthy" is being unnecessarily polite. "Yet more poisonous" would be nearer the truth!

Article doesn't say why, so here's one reason.

Poor countries, usually have politicians that are easy to bribe, resulting in less restrictive additives control. Food companies are free to replace as much ingredients with cheap alternatives short of directly killing people outright. In some countries, they even hire thugs to silence protesters.

Colonization didn't go away, they just changed into "adopt free market capitalism or we incite coup in your country".