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📢 文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 Heat Waves and Droughts Are a Bonanza for Junk Food Companies Ultraprocessed food companies are taking advantage of worsening environmental conditions to increase their profits. The New York Times Junk Food 8 August, 2024 | 812 words | ★★ ★ ★ ☆ It’s hard to find drinking water in La Guajira, an arid peninsula in northern Colombia, where drought and overuse are sucking wells and small reservoirs dry. When there’s no water, people turn to soda. Over the last two decades, as climate change has grown worse, sales have skyrocketed in Colombia, with junk food companies heavily marketing their products to children. In 2017, the country’s largest soft drink manufacturer gave free sugary fruit drinks to thousands of young people in La Guajira under the guise of ending malnutrition. As of 2020, children there still had a malnutrition mortality rate that was six times the national average. As a global nutrition researc
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