A busy week with another newly published paper 📣 Our work in Food Ethics tackles the financialisation of food systems—showing how ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and intensively produced animal-source foods (ASFs) share common structural drivers. 🧵

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 New research using the Australian Ad Observatory reveals how unhealthy food marketing online uses harmful tactics to appeal to kids and parents, and targets young people (18-24)🍔📲

Our finding support a broad prohibition on unhealthy food marketing online.

📖 Read here: lnkd.in/gMVxK36h

A pleasure to talk to @elpais.com about our recent research in @naturefood.bsky.social 🙏

Great piece on the limits of current UPF policy approaches that put consumer responsibility ahead of structural measures 🙌

Our full findings here➡️ nature.com/articles/s43...

elpais.com/salud-y-bien...

Regulation of UPF is mostly voluntary or information based.
Sure, providing information and placing the onus on individuals to make the 'healthy choice' works really well.
Just look at smoking... Oh, wait 😳

A must-read thread 👇
Let’s not get bogged down in the debate around the very concept of “UPFs”: replace “UPFs” with “HFSS foods”, and the findings remain just as valid and spot on.

New paper from my amazing Deakin (and co) colleagues adding further to the evidence base for a need to expand regulatory scope in our food system in order to transform it

"The strength of action is limited; interventions are skewed towards informational measures to influence consumer choice."

Hot off the press!🔥Our new @naturefood.bsky.social paper asks how have governments regulated ultra-processed foods?

We find a strong skew towards voluntary & information-based (i.e. weak) measures. There is huge potential to expand scope & strength of regulation 👇🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Just joined BlueSky and couldn't be happier to share this as my first post! Thanks @belindareeve.bsky.social 🎉

Thrilled to have this paper out!