Political complicity in junk food industry tactics | Eduardo J Gómez, Junk Food Politics: How Beverage and Fast Food Industries Are Reshaping Emerging Economies, Johns Hopkins University Press (2023), p. 408, US$54·95, ISBN: 9781421444284

Fear and opportunity partly underpin the tactics of the beverage and food industries. Sales of sugar-sweetened beverages, for instance, have fallen by about 25% during the past 20 years in many high-income countries (HICs). To counteract such a decrease in sales in HICs, companies have focused their attention on opportunities in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). This is the backdrop to Eduardo J Gómez's compelling book Junk Food Politics: How Beverage and Fast Food Industries Are Reshaping Emerging Economies, which looks at six country case studies from China, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and South Africa.