Joe McNamee: Where the US leads, we seem to follow

Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy is coming for the industrial food processing sector and their ultra-processed foods (UPFs), ‘food’ Mother Nature would have a hard time recognising and an even harder time recommending.

One of the more intriguing aspects of the current political, social and cultural ordure-show that is the US under Trump is the unusual volatility being inflicted on corporate America, and it’s not just tariffs.

It is a rather novel development for a sacred cow sector that always traditionally found fiscal favour, under either Republicans or Democrats, in boom times or in bad. Big business in the US is now royally spooked.