This scientific review classifies the food industry’s “part of the solution” strategy into three broad components: regulatory responses and capture; relationship building; and market strategies.
The authors conclude that the food industry’s repositioning as “part of the solution” has created a highly profitable political economy of ‘healthy’ food production, alongside continued production of unhealthy commodities, a strategy in which it is also less burdensome and conflictual for corporations to exercise political power and influence.