More creative approaches to
addressing the obesogenic influences
of commercial producers
may be fruitful. In that respect,
efforts to mitigate the influences of
the oil and gas industries on climate
change by environmentalists
may provide a useful model. The
oil and gas industry is, in large
part, responsible for the greenhouse
gas (GHG) emissions that
drive climate change, which have
well-known, and important direct
and indirect implications for
health, human welfare, and ecologic
diversity.10 Like oil and gas
companies whose products have
harmful externalities when consumed,
food and beverage corporations
produce products that drive
obesity, which stresses shared infrastructure,
threatens the sustainability
of national and state health
plans, and diminishes the quality of
national workforces.