Investors Push Food & Drink Companies, Governments Over ‘Nutrition Crisis’

Investors Push Food & Drink Companies, Governments Over ‘Nutrition Crisis’
A combination of illustrations shows apples, bananas, pears, celery, peppers, a head of lettuce, parsnips, a cucumber and onions, wrapped in plastic as bought in a supermarket, taken on Nov. 20, 2018. Lisi Niesner/Illustration/Reuters
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LONDON—Investors managing $12.4 trillion in assets on Tuesday called for governments and companies to accelerate the shift to promoting healthier food and drink to help fix what they described as a “global nutrition crisis.”

Poor-quality diets are a leading cause of death and disease and carry individual, societal and economic costs that impact the value of their holdings, 53 investors said in a pledge at the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021.