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Phillip Baker

@philbakernz.bsky.social
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ARC Future Fellow & Horizon Fellow @ School of Public Health @sydneyuni | #foodsystems #governance #ultra-processedfoods #foodpolicy #nutrition #foodpolitics #breastfeeding #globalhealth 🍎 scholar.google.com.au/citations?use…

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
🫡 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rising Tide protest: climate activists stop three ships from entering world’s largest coal port in Newcastle
NSW police arrest 141 people as campaigners demand federal government cancel planned fossil fuel projects and tax existing operations at 78%
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Important point: this ISN'T about willpower. It is about our food environment. 👇 The ultra-processed foods problem is driven by commercial interests, not individual weakness. Here’s how to fix it theconversation.com/the-ultra-pr... by @philbakernz.bsky.social et al.
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The ultra-processed foods problem is driven by commercial interests, not individual weakness. Here’s how to fix it
Without policy action and a coordinated global response, ultra-processed foods will continue to rise in human diets, harming health, economies. It’s time to act.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 19/11/2025
Ultra-processed foods now make up nearly half of the average Australian’s diet because the country has “fallen behind international best practice” on nutrition, a co-author of a major new global report says. Read the full story. 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
This new paper in the Lancet shows the power of social network analysis and data visualization to convey complex connections among the global political influence of the ultra processed foods industry. I recommend reading this entire paper: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Ultra processed food does harm to every major organ in your body. But hey, it makes them some very large profits, so the lobbyists keep working hard to sell it to you. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 20/11/2025
The Lancet's series on Ultra-Processed Foods and Human Health is a landmark. The hard part, always, is to shape policy to match the science. www.thelancet.com/infographics...
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
#WolffBites: Ultra-processed foods are very profitable so they get produced and increasingly eaten despite serious dangers to our health. Another contradiction between how capitalism works and what people need. The system is the problem. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Ultra-processed food is global health threat, experts warn
It is increasing our risk of a range of chronic diseases, including obesity and depression, a major review says.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Ultra-processed food (UPF) is linked to harm in every major organ system of the human body . Increased risk of a dozen health conditions, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and depression. Companies know but inflict harms to boost profits. Need effective regulation.
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Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 19/11/2025
Ultra-processed foods – what’s the impact? In a new Lancet Series, experts warn a global rise in #UPFs presents a growing public health threat. Read the evidence & policy recommendations ⬇️ spkl.io/63327AduhR
Part of a Lancet Infographic summarising the findings from the Lancet Series on Ultra-Processed Foods and Human Health.Part of a Lancet Infographic summarising the findings from the Lancet Series on Ultra-Processed Foods and Human Health.Part of a Lancet Infographic summarising the findings from the Lancet Series on Ultra-Processed Foods and Human Health.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 19/11/2025
Ultra-processed foods are danger to global public health, experts warn reut.rs/43xZrEo
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Ultra-processed foods are danger to global public health, experts warn
Ultra-processed foods are a major public health threat that must be urgently addressed, according to a new series of papers authored by 43 global experts in the Lancet medical journal.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/11/2025
Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
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Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing Ultra-processed food (UPF) is linked to harm in every major organ system of the human body and poses a seismic threat to global health, according to the world’s largest review. UPF is also rapidly displacing fresh food in the diets of children and adults on every continent, and is associated with an increased risk of a dozen health conditions, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and depression. Continue reading...
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LLL Collective @lllcollective.org.uk · 13/11/2025
Next up we are hearing from @philbakernz.bsky.social on The political economy of infant and young child feeding: confronting corporate power, overcoming structural barriers, and accelerating progress #BFConf
The title slide of Philip Baker's presentation featuring groups of mothers breastfeeding side by side, with Philip video image next to it as he is presenting remotely
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Phillip Baker @philbakernz.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Please join us! For the launch of the Lancet Series on Ultra-processed Foods and Human Health 🌏 Tickets are SOLD OUT for the London launch event. But some tickets are still available to join us online via Zoom. 🔗 Click here to register: uni-sydney.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Launch of the Lancet Series on Ultra-processed Foods and Human Health. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Speakers will unpack the scientific, policy, and political dimensions of the global UPF challenge. Register below to join.
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 16/10/2025
Ultra-processed foods are reshaping global diets, health, & the planet. Join us for the global launch of a new Series on UPFs & Human Health on 19 Nov. 🌍 Experts will unpack the science, policy, & politics of #UPFs. Register to attend 👉 tinyurl.com/3h2t5mr4
High-angle photography of grocery display in a supermarket. Copyright: Peter Bond on Unsplash.
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Stuart Gillespie @stuartgillespie.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
How's this for a World Food Day partnership!? www.nestlehealthscience.us/stories/nest...
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Rob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
new article in @reggovjournal.bsky.social that examines how corporations engage in 'venue hopping' as a means to advance agendas in multiple spaces and at multiple levels This riffs off Baumgartner and Jones' notion of venue shopping, but adapts it for an increasingly multistakeholder world
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Corporate Power in a Multistakeholder World: Venue Hopping and the Multilevel Politics of Ultra‐Processed Food
The regulation of business is increasingly characterized by “soft” governance regimes that blur the boundaries of public and private authority, as signaled by the rapid proliferation of multistakehol...
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Phillip Baker @philbakernz.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
How did ultra-processed foods come to dominate what much of the world eats–and what can we do about it? 🌍 Join the launch of The Lancet Series on UPFs & Human Health, 19 Nov (London + online) Experts will unpack the science, policy & politics of UPFs 🔗 Register: www.fsp.usp.br/nupens/launc...
Lancet Series on Ultra-processed Foods
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Phillip Baker @philbakernz.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
How did ultra-processed foods come to dominate what much of the world eats–and what can we do about it? 🌍 Join the launch of The Lancet Series on UPFs & Human Health, 19 Nov (London + online) Experts will unpack the science, policy & politics of UPFs 🔗 Register: www.fsp.usp.br/nupens/launc...
Lancet Series on Ultra-processed Foods
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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
“People are outraged when they find out just how much big food corporations spend on lobbying government.” Our CEO @suepritch.bsky.social on today's episode of The Food Programme, sharing what we found from talking to citizens in #TheFoodConversation. Listen in full 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Looking forward to speaking at this online event tomorrow on corporate power in agrifood systems - info below⤵️
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Phillip Baker @philbakernz.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Calling all food governance scholars! Please check out this call for papers for a special issue on rebuilding global food governance. More info below 👇
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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Call for papers! @danielleresnick.bsky.social , @philbakernz.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue in the journal Food Policy on "Rebuilding Global Food Governance amidst a Crisis of Multilateralism" - Papers due Feb.1, 2026. For more info, see link! www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Food Policy | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Food Policy | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest articles of Food Policy at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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Phillip Baker @philbakernz.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Absolutely heart breaking 💔 I can only imagine the frustration and pain parents and health workers are experiencing watching their young children starve. Let’s be clear: the weaponisation of food by the Israeli state is a war crime under international law. It’s mass murder and an act of genocide.
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Phillip Baker @philbakernz.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
🔥 Powerful new report just out from UNICEF - Feeding Profit: How Food Environments are Failing Children. Exposes rising problem of ultra-processed foods in child food environments, the industry behind it, and what to do about it. Please absolutely read and share 👇 www.unicef.org/reports/feed...
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How food environments are failing children
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Becky Freeman @drbfreeman.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Vape brands bypass regulations on marketing to young people by using global social media accounts theconversation.com/vape-brands-...
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Vape brands bypass regulations on marketing to young people by using global social media accounts
Vape manufacturers mirror traditional tobacco marketing, including stylish branding, flavours and sponsorships, to reach young people through social media.
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Food Fix @foodfixco.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
FoodFix bonus edition: David Kessler, who served as FDA commissioner during the H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations, once took on Big Tobacco. Now he’s taking on Big Food. foodfix.co/former-fda-c...
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Former FDA commissioner seeks ban on popular ingredients in ultra-processed foods
David Kessler, who served as FDA commissioner during the H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations, once took on Big Tobacco. Now he’s taking on Big Food.
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Phillip Baker @philbakernz.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Excellent proposal 🙌
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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
🧵3/3 This is timely given the current work in Australia to restrict the marketing of infant formula and what the formula industry has to say about it. You can read what they are saying about the matter (publicly) here ➡️ www.accc.gov.au/public-regis... and ➡️ www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...
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Naomi Hull @naomihull.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
🧵2/3 The NZ govt bowed to lobbying, departing from the revised standard to limit misleading labels on formula tins. Evidence of many meetings between formula execs and NZ ministers. Strong regulation of lobbying needed to safeguard infant health from profit. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Phillip Baker @philbakernz.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Hot off the press! 🔥 our new case study on political lobbying by the baby food industry and how it influenced New Zealand governments decision to opt out of regulations intended to protect infant health. Please see below for the full article 👇 with congrats to Naomi Hull for her leadership on this!
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Phillip Baker @philbakernz.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Timely editorial by @TheLancetEndo highlights need for policies on ultra-processed foods. @carlos-monteiro.bsky.social & me agree, adding that policies targeting ultra-processed diets as a whole are realistic & urgent—especially in regions not yet dominated by them www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Stuart Gillespie @stuartgillespie.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Great paper by Dori Patay and colleagues...on getting beyond the clichés of transformation to show what it will really take! www.nature.com/articles/s43... @nature.com @philbakernz.bsky.social
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Katie Pereira-Kotze @katiepk.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Hot off the press, @mathisenroger.bsky.social @philbakernz.bsky.social Recommendations include Adopt legal measures to give full effect to the Code as opposed to relying on voluntary measures. Prioritise strengthening comprehensive maternity protection, cultivate intersectoral policy environments.
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Nicholas Nisbett @nicknisbett.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Next up in our series asking how we can transform global/local food systems - our own (Food Equity Centre and @ids.ac.uk's) Lidia Cabral. Check it out! And thanks again @philbakernz.bsky.social @deewoods.bsky.social for the earlier videos in this series and @chalkstonefilms.bsky.social !
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Food Equity Centre @foodequitycentre.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
People working in food systems - those in fields, in factories and in hospitality need to have their labour fairly compensated. That's the key to transforming food systems for the better says @deewoods.bsky.social ‪from @landworkersuk.bsky.social ‪ and @grancomkitchen.bsky.social
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Nicholas Nisbett @nicknisbett.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
So grateful to @deewoods.bsky.social for participating in this @foodequitycentre.bsky.social series of films asking what it will take to transform the global food system, with thanks also to filmmakers @chalkstonefilms.bsky.social ! ping also @philbakernz.bsky.social thanks again for yours!
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Phillip Baker @philbakernz.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
It was a pleasure to speak with the team from @foodequitycentre.bsky.social at @ids.ac.uk about transforming the global food system. I was visiting to speak about the global health challenge of ultra-processed foods, and we made this short video 👇 please check out the wonderful work they are doing
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Food Equity Centre @foodequitycentre.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
What would it take to transform the global food system? For @philbakernz.bsky.social, redistribution of resources to enable more households to access healthy food is the key. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ4q... What actions do you think are needed? #foodjustice #foodsystems
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Transforming food systems: tackling inequality and redistributing resources
YouTube video by Institute of Development Studies
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Nicholas Nisbett @nicknisbett.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
first in our series for the @foodequitycentre.bsky.social featuring the incredible @philbakernz.bsky.social ...watch this space for more and thanks to our amazing filmmakers @chalkstonefilms.bsky.social !
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Emmanuel Freudenthal @emmanfre.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Kenya's competition authority looked into animal feed market and found: - 4 vertically integrated firms control over half the market - Feed prices are up to 40% higher than international markets - This leads to lower farmer income and higher food prices www.shambacentre.org/why-competit...
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Why competition authorities must address food markets — Shamba Centre for Food & Climate
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Phillip Baker @philbakernz.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
New study just out 🔥 Kenya's 2012 Breast Milk Substitutes Act is a powerful example of how women’s political leadership - backed by male allies, global advocacy networks, and policy windows - can overcome corporate opposition to protect breastfeeding. Please read more below 👇
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Rob Percival @rob-percival.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I spent the half-year working on this investigation. Extraordinary influence of UPF lobby behind the scenes. 'UK government dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms' 👇 www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
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UK government dropped health push after lobbying by ultra-processed food firms
Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals guidance for retailers in England changed after campaign by global food firms
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Amy Carrad @amycarrad.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
One week until this #SavingTheWorld webinar with guest Professor @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social, hosted by the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse. 📆17th April 🕥10:30am AEST 🔗Register for the Zoom link: hothouse.anu.edu.au/event/titans... @anuregnet.bsky.social @uwaterloo.ca @anuagrifood.bsky.social
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Katie Pereira-Kotze @katiepk.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
📰 just published in Journal of Colleges of Medicine of South Africa: SA health professional associations urged to end commercial formula industry sponsorship doi.org/10.4102/jcms... @lori-lake.bsky.social @melissamialon.bsky.social @naomihull.bsky.social @helengray.bsky.social @drtomori.bsky.social
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Phillip Baker @philbakernz.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Happy to share more wonderful research led by Kim Anastasiou and team, this paper on the environmental impacts of ultraprocessed beverages. Check it out below 👇
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Dr Kim Anastasiou @kimanastasiou.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
📣Excited to have my final PhD study published! This work aimed to quantify the environmental impacts of ultra-processed beverages and analyse their impacts under different policy-based scenarios. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 20/03/2025
🚨State-backed meat giants are reshaping global #foodsystems —at huge cost. With massive subsidies, JBS, WH Group & others: 🌍Drive deforestation ⚖️Dodge antitrust rules 💰 Exploit tax loopholes 🍽️ Worsen food access 📢 Time to rein them in! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #MeatMonopolies
Global meat processing industry structure 2000 to 2023
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Kate Sievert @katesievert.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Just published! 📢 Our new paper in The Journal of Peasant Studies examines how national champion policies have reshaped global meat supply chains—concentrating power, limiting competition, and benefiting transnational investors. 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Unofficial Guardian (UK) Bot @guardian-uk-rss.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Ultra-processed babies: are toddler snacks one of the great food scandals of our time?
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Ultra-processed babies: are toddler snacks one of the great food scandals of our time?
For time-poor parents, straws, sticks, pouches and powders can seem like a quick, convenient and even healthy option. But these oversweetened, mushy foods are creating a generation of choosy consumers whose teeth are already rotting
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Phillip Baker @philbakernz.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
An important read - time to step it up Australia!
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