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title: "Listen: Episode 7 - Poor people are bearing the brunt of unhealthy food"
description: "African countries are being targeted as the next frontier for the proliferation of unhealthy and disease causing ultra processed foods! This also means that our local small scale farmers who produce healthy whole are being squeezed out the market. Find out more as I unpack with Programmes Manager at HEALA Nzama Mbalati, health journalist Laura Lopez Gonzalez and public health lawyer Safura Abdool Karim in our last episode."
type: "NewsArticle"
publisher: "Daily Maverick"
site: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za"
section: "Maverick Citizen"
author: "Zukiswa Pikoli"
author_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/author/zukiswa-pikoli/"
canonical_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-09-29-listen-episode-7-poor-people-are-are-bearing-the-brunt-of-unhealthy-food/"
published: "2022-09-29T11:18:02"
updated: "2022-09-29T13:34:42"
lang: "en-ZA"
---

# Listen: Episode 7 - Poor people are bearing the brunt of unhealthy food

> African countries are being targeted as the next frontier for the proliferation of unhealthy and disease causing ultra processed foods! This also means that our local small scale farmers who produce healthy whole are being squeezed out the market. Find out more as I unpack with Programmes Manager at HEALA Nzama Mbalati, health journalist Laura Lopez Gonzalez and public health lawyer Safura Abdool Karim in our last episode.

By Zukiswa Pikoli · Published 29 September 2022, 13:18 SAST · Updated 29 September 2022, 15:34 SAST

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