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Former Unilever CEO Paul Polman Urges Food and Beverage Companies to Deliver Healthier, More Sustainable Products

21 October 2024

Former Unilever CEO Paul Polman, the Rockefeller Foundation, and healthy nutrition advocates are on a campaign to get big food and beverage companies and retailers to produce and market more healthy products.

For Polman, who eschewed quarterly financial reporting and drove sustainable business practices in his decade at Unilever, it’s critical for companies to collectively work together to improve human health, nutrition, and the biodiversity of the planet.

“Every business depends on biodiversity, every business depends on healthy economies, and every business is incurring the cost of our failures,” says Polman, who left Unilever in 2019. “The cost of not acting is now becoming higher than the cost of acting. Yet it’s difficult to get it on the corporate agenda.”

Last week, a letter was sent to the leaders of major, global food and beverage companies urging them to create healthier and more sustainably sourced products and to market so-called junk foods high in salt, sugar, and unhealthy fats, more responsibly.

According to the letter, “70% of the world’s processed foods do not fit in a healthy diet.” The result of more people globally, particularly in emerging markets, consuming these diets is a rise in diabetes, heart disease, and cancer—a cost they quantified at US$11 trillion.

Read the full article here