Thursday, December 04, 2025

San Francisco Sues Kraft, Mondelez over Ultraprocessed Food

The city of San Francisco sued Kraft, Mondelez, Coca-Cola, and other makers of ultra-processed foods on Tuesday, accusing them of knowingly sickening California residents with addictive and harmful products.

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For this story, I went to Safeway with City Attorney David Chiu. Many of the food labels are . "It makes me sick that generations of kids and parents are being deceived and buying food that's not food," he said.

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-- Heather Knight (@heatherknightsf.bsky.social) Dec 2, 2025 at 9:36 AM

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Should be the US Gov bringing this lawsuit.

Poisoning people for profit used to be a crime.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-03 09:21 AM

"Premature Mortality Attributable to Ultra-Processed Food Consumption in Eight Countries"

Link: www.ajpmonline.org(25)00072-8/abstract

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-03 07:14 PM

The FDA was for it before they were against it. Approved until no longer approved.

Just like the CDC, another stamp of approval until the product that was safe, isnt.

#3 | Posted by Petrous at 2025-12-04 07:55 AM

So the real takeaway here is that the FDA can be bought...

#4 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-12-04 12:38 PM

Interesting choice of label to show for the story. I'm not seeing anything particularly odd or scary on that label.

#5 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-12-04 03:33 PM

This is a hot pocket, of course the I gredient list is ling.

This is a precursor to suing ultra-processed meat.

#6 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-12-04 03:40 PM

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