ABSTRACT
The right to intervene to reduce unhealthy factors and the type of intervention in the behaviour of consumers and stakeholders requires ethical analysis. The relationship between the environment and public health has many aspects. Pollution of water, air and soil harm public health severely. Increasingly more people are obese; large companies are criticized by NGOs because of the low quality of their produced food and social environments are seen as encouraging obesity. The widespread presence of obesity is a very negative public health problem, along with increased instances of concomitant diseases such as type-two diabetes, cancer of the intestines and cardiovascular diseases. The complex interaction of food production, consumption and the environment, determining class-dependent obesity, has various components. When a causal relationship between certain environmental factors and obesity is established, the issue of responsibilities emerges.
