How a government scientist is pushing to supersize research into ultra-processed foods
CHICAGO — The last place you might have expected Kevin Hall to make a plea for help was at a conference of scientists who work for global food conglomerates. After all, the government researcher is the leading scientific voice in the United States warning that a steady diet of these engineered products might be a crucial driver of the nation’s epidemic of overeating.
Yet there he was earlier this summer at Chicago’s cavernous McCormick Place convention center, alongside salesmen for Cargill pitching their high oleic canola oil, asking food technologists to partner with the government to investigate the health impact of these foods.
