{"id":84559,"date":"2025-12-07T02:50:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T02:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/84559\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T02:50:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T02:50:24","slug":"nestle-and-other-food-firms-sued-by-the-city-of-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/84559\/","title":{"rendered":"Nestl\u00e9 and other food firms sued by the city of San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/dfdd5de8d5dfe39ccd26ce368935223c5bcd9fc6-90579801.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Nestl\u00e9 and other companies sued by the city of San Francisco\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Nestl\u00e9 and other companies sued by the city of San Francisco            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        The city of San Francisco has filed a lawsuit against 10 food companies, including Nestl\u00e9 USA. It accuses the companies of having triggered a health crisis with the production and distribution of highly processed foods.\n<\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        December 4, 2025 &#8211; 09:00\n<\/p>\n<p>The food companies have flooded the country with \u201caddictive, highly processed foods with low nutritional value\u201d, according to a statement from the San Francisco city attorney on Tuesday (local time). For the city, the \u201coverconsumption\u201d of such products, such as sweets and sweet drinks, crisps and breakfast cereals, is directly linked to diseases such as diabetes, fatty liver, cardiovascular disease and cancer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/latest-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">+Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to Nestl\u00e9 USA, the defendants include Kraft Heinz, Mondelez, Post Holdings, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, General Mills, Kellogg, Mars and ConAgra Brands.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney for the City of San Francisco is now seeking, among other things, an injunction prohibiting the defendants from engaging in misleading advertising and requiring them to correct the effects of their behaviour. At the same time, the lawsuit seeks damages and civil penalties for the \u201castronomical health costs\u201d of consuming these products.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/29508855_highres.jpg\" width=\"1300\" height=\"778\" alt=\"ice cream\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Food safety\n        <\/p>\n<p>        Food companies are making treats unhealthier to win over Gen Z\u00a0    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Sep 3, 2025                    <\/p>\n<p>                Food firms are counting on Gen Z to grow their profits and are exploiting their sweet tooth and penchant for social media trends to boost sales.\u00a0\u00a0            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/food-safety\/food-companies-are-making-treats-unhealthier-to-win-over-gen-z\/89879459\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: Food companies are making treats unhealthier to win over Gen Z\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Nestl\u00e9 spokesperson declined to comment on Wednesday when asked by the news agency AWP.<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from German by DeepL\/ac<\/p>\n<p>                How we work            <\/p>\n<p>We select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools to translate them into English. 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