Food companies fatten us up only for Big Pharma to let us inject ourselves slim again. Crazy? Perhaps it’s the beginning of the end for a destructive business model.
Author: Ingo Arzt
Ingo Arzt has a degree in electrical engineering and attended the German School of Journalism. He then worked for several years in the business and environment department of the “taz”, reporting on the climate crisis and, most recently, on vaccines and corona. Since June 2021 he has been an editor in the health department at ZEIT ONLINE.
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