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• Bell Pottinger Public Affairs
  ==Influencing government policy== ...the think tank [[Policy Exchange]] as a root to influencing UK government policy. The firm's managing director, [[Tim Collins (politician and lobbyist)|Tim
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• Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
  ...ultural research systems, the private sector and civil society'. Trade and policy analyst Devinder Sharma describes this as 'a cleverly worded explanation fo ...n article on this problem in the science journal Nature concluded that the food supply for future generations in the developing world could hinge on whethe
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• Michael Craven
  ...ore 'cash for access' scandals (other clients include [[Novartis]], the GM food company). ...to support the [[SmithKline Beecham]]-funded lobbying of patient interest groups, notably the [[Genetic Interest Group]], over the proposed Directive on the
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• CropLife International
  ...f> GE Food Alert [http://www.gefoodalert.org/News/news.cfm?News_ID=3433 GM Food Industry Gears Up Campaign Against Labels] Accessed 6th February 2008</ref> ...and disseminate knowledge that empowers stakeholders - including farmers, policy makers, and the public - to make informed decisions about agricultural biot
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• Bill Durodié
  ...for Security Analysis]], and Senior Research Fellow in the [[International Policy Institute]], within the [[War Studies Group]] of [[King's College London]]. ...tre for Security Analysis, and Senior Research Fellow in the International Policy Institute, within the 5* Research Assessment Exercise rated War Studies Gro
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• EuropaBio
  ...its member associations, EuropaBio also 'fosters a standing dialogue with policy makers and stakeholders at a national level'. ...d a big influence on the zambian government's rejection of GM contaminated food aid.
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• European Science and Environment Forum
  Like other "[[sound science]]" front groups, its real mission is to disparage the science upon which environmental safe ...]), to the [[Institute of Economic Affairs]] and later the [[International Policy Network]] and the [[Sustainable Development Network]]. The IEA itself has
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• Michael Fitzpatrick
  ...iving Marxism]]. [[Global Futures]] appears to be one of a series of front groups generated by the political network of individuals involved with [[LM]] and ...fessor Sir [[John Krebs]] ([[University of Oxford]], the chairman of the [[Food Standards Agency]]) | Professor {[Sheila McLean]] (Director, Institute of L
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• Food Standards Agency
  ...ion. Government minister Margaret Beckett reinforces the message that 'the Food Standards Agency... is very much an independent agency and an independent v ...d July 2009. As of May 2010 the chair was [[Jeff Rooker]],<ref>[http://www.food.gov.uk/aboutus/ourboard/boardmem/ Board members], FSA website, acc 27 May 2
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• Food and Drink Federation
  ...romotes the industry's views and works to build consumer confidence in the food chain as a whole.' ...ctober 2007)</ref>. Member organisations include the Rice Association, the Food Association, the Potato Processors Association, the British Soft Drinks Ass
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• Food and Drink Federation: Corporate Crimes
  [[Food and Drink Federation]] ...-April 2001, the government had seemingly decided on a limited vaccination policy for Cumbria and possibly Devon. The vaccination option could have saved ten
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• Food and Drink Federation: Influence and lobbying
  The [[Food and Drink Federation]] is a corporate-controlled lobby group which promotes ...ims that the FDF is &#39;neither for, nor against, genetic modification in food production&#39;{{ref|13}}. However, whilst posing as an impartial body, the
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• Food and Drink Federation: Who, Where and How Much
  [[Food and Drink Federation]] ==FDF Policy formulation==
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• L. Val Giddings
  ...l Giddings''' is the former Vice President for [http://www.bio.org/foodag/ Food & Agriculture] of the Washington DC-based [[Biotechnology Industry Organiza ...d Bank]], following five years contributing to and directing biotechnology policy studies with the Office of Technology Assessment of the United States Congr
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• Tony Gilland
  ...f>Andy Rowell, 'Society: Environment: The alliance of science: Independent groups share pro-GM common ground', ''The Guardian'', 26 March 2003.</ref> ), wher ...tion and Periodic Review in the Water Industry, and a review of regulatory policy in the energy sector.
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• John Gillott
  ...f> He formerly worked at the [[Genetic Interest Group]] (GIG) London, as a policy officer, and was also on the staff of the online clinical genetics resource ...eir objectives through public and stakeholder engagement'.<ref>Development Policy and Practice [https://web.archive.org/web/20091008140930/http://dpp.open.ac
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• User talk:Tommy
  ...etworks' can you remove that phrase and substantiate the links? What other groups is it linked to? What arethe connections of the principals. Where is the [ ...list of articles on the people and groups behind the push for GM crops and food is here." and then when they click on "here", it's actually a hidden link t
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• All-Party Parliamentary Food and Health Forum
  ...d to explore and contribute to knowledge, policies and information on food policy, diet and health. ...www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/160428/food-and-health.htm Food and Health APPG, Register 28 April 2016], ''parliament.uk'', accessed 10 Ma
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• Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
  ...ongly favouring 'limited government' and 'market-based solutions to public policy problems'.<ref>[http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/homepage/about.html About], ...Director – Ex-Reagan executive director of the President's Task Force on Food Assistance.
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• Horticulture Research International
  ...lic Body (NDPB) and is responsible to the UK's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA, formerly MAFF). It also receives funding via the [[ ...about GM, moulded HRI in his own image, making it part of HRI's'corporate policy' to promote its views on GM technology to the public. As he told the [http:
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• Hudson Institute
  ...the forefront of study and debate on important domestic and international policy issues, known and respected around the globe, a leader in innovative thinki ...[Alex Avery]], director of research and education at the Center for Global Food Issues.<ref>"[http://web.archive.org/web/20020917143242/http://www.hudson.o
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• International Policy Network
  ...>[http://www.policynetwork.net/main/content.php?content_id=4 International Policy Network website], undated, accessed March 2006</ref> ...0423050416/http://www.policynetwork.net/events/labelling_3march2003.htm GM food: should labelling be mandatory?], IPN website, version placed in web archiv
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• Institute of Public Affairs
  ...t, an Economic Policy Unit, an Indigenous Issues Unit and an Environmental Policy Unit. ...hnology', saying it wants to "combat the misinformation put out by radical groups' who oppose genetic engineering". It claims this technology is actually 'sa
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• International Food Information Council
  The Washington D.C.-based '''International Food Information Council''' (IFIC) says it is ...onprofit organization that communicates sound science-based information on food safety and nutrition topics to health professionals, journalists, governmen
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• International Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources
  ...having radical and self-serving NGOs dictate the nation's and the world's food policies based on deceptive tactics. That is an unforgivable disservice to ...n a new year message, 'So why are environmental and animal rights advocacy groups rampaging about the globe destroying field tests of these new crops, vandal
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• International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications
  ...080517084148/http://www.isaaa.org/inbrief/donors/default.asp Donor Support Groups (Past and Current)], ISAAA website, version placed in web archive 17 May 20 ...worldnews/asia/india/7196372/India-drops-GM-food-plans.html India drops GM food plans], The Telegraph, 9 Feb 2010, accessed 24 Feb 2010</ref>
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• International Life Sciences Institute
  ...and the [[World Health Organisation]] (WHO). Its members include many big food, chemical, pharmaceutical, and GM crop companies. It has been active in des ...8 to advance the understanding of scientific issues relating to nutrition, food safety, toxicology, risk assessment, and the environment. By bringing toget
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• International Grain Trade Coalition
  ...f a low cost bulk handling system to transport commodities for the world's food, feed and processing industries.{{ref|1}} #{{note|9}} see NCGA policy paper available at http://www.ncga.com/biotechnology/pdfs/PolicyPositionPap
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• Luke Mumba
  ...level, being discussed. I am one of those who sit on the Committee and the policy will be in place soon".' ...as part of a lobbying trip organised by the biotech-industry funded lobby groups [[EuropaBio]] and [[CropGen]]. In the [http://www.seedquest.com/News/releas
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• Kisan Coordination Committee
  ...vides the most common source of employment. New Delhi-based Food and Trade Policy analyst, Devinder Sharma, told us in 2002, 'Sharad Joshi is now almost alon ...ingh Mann of Bharti Kisan Union (Mann) of Punjab, and some other breakaway groups. So is the case of Mann, whose group has shrunk in size and represents the
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• Dean Kleckner
  ...e US's [http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3124 exploitation of the food aid issue] for trade purposes. ...children starve every day? ...it isn't because of a worldwide shortage of food. It is because of a worldwide shortage of trade and technology.' Kleckner h
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• Lexington Communications
  ====Biotech front groups==== ...gn for the ABC to educate 'regulators, legislators, retailers and consumer groups'. The budget was £250,000, the same amount of money that was originally pr
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• Henry I. Miller
  ...pubs/fear_profiteers.pdf The Fear Profiteers]", National Center for Public Policy and Junkscience.com, February 2002, p73.</ref> ...ds. He is also a key figure in the network of right-wing pro-biotech lobby groups in the U.S. He is an 'adjunct scholar' at the [[Competitive Enterprise Inst
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• Steven Milloy
  ...s 'junk science' as "bad science used by lawsuit-happy trial lawyers, the 'food police,' environmental Chicken Littles, power-drunk regulators, and unethic ...nternational Food Additives Council]], and [[Monsanto]] on the subject of 'food safety and labeling', i.e. biotech foods<ref>"[http://www.trwnews.net/Docum
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• National Center for Food and Agriculture Policy
  The [http://www.ncfap.org/ National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy] (NCFAP) describes itself as 'a private non-profit non-advocacy research or ...nology, pesticides, international trade and development, and farm and food policy.
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• Andrew Natsios
  ...hortly after taking up his post, it also 'serves to accomplish our foreign policy objectives' (May 8 2001). ...ad served previously at USAID as assistant administrator for the Bureau of Food and Humanitarian Assistance at USAID and director of the Office of its Fore
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• Science and Environmental Policy Project
  ...started an as affiliate to the [[Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy]], which is part of the Rev [[Sun Myung Moon]]’s Unification church, alth ...ing]] and [[Patrick Michaels]]. <ref> PR Newswire (1992) “World's Energy Policy Should Not Be Based On Feelings, Experts Say”, 27 February.</ref> Indeed
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• Nuffield Council on Bioethics
  ...helped produce the Royal Society's report 'Genetically Modified Plants for Food Use' which was used at an earlier stage to reassure government ministers th ...rops and suggested leaving large GM-free tracts of the UK as an 'insurance policy'. This suggestion did not survive consultation with the industry and was ed
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• Kendra Okonski
  ...jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Kendra Okonski]] in image from the [[International Policy Network]] website 2011]] ...x|[[Kendra Okonski]], [[Competitive Enterprise Institute]]/[[International Policy Network]], 2001]]
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• PG Economics
  ...nsultants servicing the agricultural, agricultural supply trade, rural and food industries".<ref>[http://www.pgeconomics.co.uk/who.htm Who are PG Economics ...ts dealing with the economic and strategic issues of GMO crops through the food chain. These reports have generated company press releases such as:
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• Project 21
  ...ebate over the use of [GM foods] in Africa is unfortunately not just about food. If that were the case, millions more Africans would be going to bed with f Project 21 is an initiative of the [[National Center for Public Policy Research]] - a conservative/free market foundation with a strongly anti-env
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• Peter Raven
  ...]] (CORE), once one of America's most venerable and respected civil rights groups, confronted Greenpeace at a public event and accused it of "'eco-manslaught ...ard. Now the Garden is collaborating with Monsanto's nutrition sector on a food library, collecting samples of all plants used worldwide as foods and medic
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• Fishburn Hedges
  ...to form a single company, '''Fishburn'''. The new firm comprises four core groups: ===Front groups===
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• Edelman
  ...logy ($44.1 million), financial and investor relations ($33.1 million) and food ($21.46 million).<ref>[http://www.odwyerpr.com/members/pr_firm_rankings/ind ...p them to form relationships with legislators, officials, special interest groups and sovereign governments to achieve their economic and political objective
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• Scientific Alliance
  ...that the debate on the environment has been distorted by extreme pressure groups".<ref>Andy Rowell, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2001/jul/11/guardian ...ferences along with other corporate front groups. Its current three stated policy areas are: Energy and Climate change, Transport/Infrastructure and Land Use
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• David Sainsbury
  ...the cabinet biotechnology committee, [[Sci-Bio]], responsible for national policy on GM crops and foods, and as such was a key adviser to Blair on GM technol For some, the choice of an unelected biotech investor and food industrialist to be Science Minister, based within the Department of Trade
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• Science Media Centre
  ...for the media but its views are largely in line with government scientific policy. The SMC made much of its charitable status, yet its charity number is the In a critique of the SMC in ''Nature'' journal, the science policy journalist Colin Macilwain said the SMC "offers the media a clearing house
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• Social Issues Research Centre
  ...s health], Accessed 17 December 2009</ref> which fits the interests of the food companies as well as the raft of alcohol firms for which SIRC works. None o ...2009</ref> — a position consistent with that advanced by elements of the food and advertising industries.
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• Burson-Marsteller
  ===Front groups=== ...ing criticism of its role in establishing and de facto running three front groups: The [[Coalition to Prevent Deep-Vein Thrombosis]] (on behalf of [[Aventis]
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• Dick Taverne
  ...dy noted, is a long-time associate of Blair's Science Minister, the former food-industry maganate and biotech investor, Lord [[David Sainsbury]].<ref>Nyta ...]] who he has described as, "the excellent and admirable chairman of the [[Food Standards Agency]]".
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• Juliet Tizzard
  [[Juliet Tizzard]] is head of policy and communications at the [[Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority]] ...[[British Medical Association]] ([[BMA]]), where she was responsible for 'policy and ethics advice and lobbying on assisted reproduction, abortion and organ
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• Truth About Trade and Technology
  ...e US's [http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3124 exploitation of the food aid issue] for trade purposes. ...children starve every day? ...it isn't because of a worldwide shortage of food. It is because of a worldwide shortage of trade and technology.' Kleckner h
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• United States Agency for International Development
  ...U.S. foreign assistance has always had the furthering of America's foreign policy interests, which includes furthering US economic growth, agriculture and tr ...reenpeace.org.uk/MultimediaFiles/Live/FullReport/5243.pdf See USAID and GM food aid])
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• Portman Group
  ...rom other kinds of drug and to give it a good face is the main activity of groups like the Portman Group." <ref> Jim Carey, 1997. [http://ecstasy.org/info/ji ...members. <ref> The Grocer, November 27th 2004, ''Do we need a Portman for food?'' accessed via Nexis UK May 23rd 2008 </ref>
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• James Lovelock
  ...1991, warns of up to 100 000 additional cases of thyroid cancer in all age groups. ...leading scientists and researchers commissioned by European parliamentary groups, Greenpeace International and medical foundations in Britain, Germany, Ukra
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• Royal Society
  ...of GM plants had the potential to offer benefits in agricultural practice, food quality, nutrition and health. ...an Gillard, "[http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/1999/nov/01/gm.food Pro-GM food scientist 'threatened editor']," ''The Guardian'', 01.11.1999, accessed 17.
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• Whitehouse Consultancy Ltd
  ...mi352.htm House of Commons Publications and Records, Register of All-party Groups accessed 1 December 2007 </ref> == Health and food ==
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• Economic League
  ...art co-ordinating body, part public relations agency for a large number of groups campaign for right wing causes and single issues - the [[British Empire Uni "On every occasion the owners have deprecated this policy of concession to threats originating in the left wing of the Miners Federat
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• All-Party Parliamentary Group on Nuclear Energy
  ...works for [[CH2M Hill]], although the Parliamentary register of All Party Groups says the "Nuclear Industry Association provides administrative assistance ( ...ned that the elected Government listen more to the unelected environmental groups who have no responsibility and would not be criticised nor held accountable
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• Priority profiles
  #[[European Food Information Council]] needs references (referenced by Mat) #[[Land Reform Policy Group]] (edited and referenced by Neha)
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• Media Smart
  '''Media Smart''' is an organisation funded by fast-food, media and toy industries. Its website states it is a: ...dren and food advertising in the UK], ''International Journal of Cultural Policy'', Volume 15, Issue 2 May 2009 , pages 201 - 215.
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• Business Roundtable, extract from The Powers That Be
  ...e Executive branch, the Business Roundtable is unique among general policy groups in that it has an activist profile and personally lobbies members of Congre ...s prepared by task forces. In developing its positions and strategies, the policy committee relies on task forces. Each is headed by the chief executive of a
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• Scottish Science Advisory Committee
  ...isters on strategic scientific issues, including science strategy, science policy and science priorities. ...is a member of the IEE ([[Institution of Electrical Engineers]]) research policy group. Professor Calder has a particular interest in how science and techno
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• Supermarkets and planning
  ...way in which supermarkets are gaining this much power is through lobbyist groups set up to influence the government and prevent decisions going against them ...re are many others, that Asda and Wal-mart by being part of these lobbying groups are one step closer to government and therefore one step closer to influenc
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• Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
  ...ecretary of State for Health, [[Stephen Dorrell]], explained in 1996, 'Our policy needs to provide firm support for the pharmaceutical industry... The indust ...verning promotion and advertising of prescription medicine. After the US [[Food and Drug Administration]] changed its rules to allow direct-to-consumer (DT
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• Cohn and Wolfe Ltd
  ...lex environment where healthcare providers, patients, caregivers, advocacy groups and manufacturers engage in digital communications channels like social com ...oblem, the answer for which is Paxil, and creating faux grassroots patient groups like [[Freedom From Fear]] to push their clients' drugs.<ref>Martha Rosenbe
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• GlaxoSmithKline
  ...in, a vitamin D concentrate to replace vitamins that were destroyed in the food drying process.”<ref>Corporate Watch Magazine, Issue 10, Spring 2000</ref ...m Inc.]] Food giant Sara Lee is regularly criticised for selling unhealthy food. While Glaxo’s ‘mission statement’ includes ‘enabling people to do
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• LOTIS Committee
  ...tes Government officials 'as observers'. DTI also reassures that 'business groups are as important a lobby as NGO's'. ...uch as airlines and retail stores; consumer services, like hotels and fast food chains; public services, such as education, health care and sanitation; rep
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• Foodspin Portal
  ...edicated to exposing and reporting on the spin and lobbying efforts of the food industry. It is part of [[Powerbase:About|Powerbase]]&mdash;your guide to n ...out misleading information about issues such as nutrition, obesity and the food supply chain. <br>
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• Merck and Co. Inc.
  ...d showing that it increased the risks of heart attack. David Graham of the Food and Drug Administration, the US drug regulator, said it could have caused u ==Policy Exchange funding==
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• Lobbying Portal
  ...50px|To take a tour of some of the major lobbying firms, industry lobbying groups and think tanks that surround Parliament in central London, visit the [http '''Powerbase has a policy of [[Powerbase:A Guide to Referencing|strict referencing]] and is overseen
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• Shell
  The Royal-Dutch/Shell groups of companies is an Anglo-Dutch group, the holding companies who own the gro ...and chemicals. Shell aims to work closely with its customers, partners and policy-makers to advance more efficient and sustainable use of energy and natural
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• European Commission, Diet and Nutrition
  ...the world. Governments, for example, have become reluctant to intervene in food markets as multinational companies and transnational bodies have become pow ...le, in the area of GM foods (see "GM Food", below) and food additives (see Food Additives, below).
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• Michael Gove
  ...w Gove''' (born 26 August 1967) was UK secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs from June 2017 until July 2019, having been appointed to ...he shadow secretary of state for children schools and families and a close policy aide of [[David Cameron]].
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• The Barrow Cadbury Trust
  ...y Centre]] in partnership with the [[British Council]] and the [[Migration Policy Group]]. ...Development Manager at the Barrow Cadbury Trust and managed the [[Foreign Policy Centre]]'s programme on International Development and acted as an advisor t
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• Diageo
  ...terests in food as well as drink. Today, the company has shed most of its food interests to concentrate on alcohol, acquiring new spirit brands. It projec ...d through various alcohol industry bodies. Diageo's networks of links with policy-makers should be especially highlighted (see [[Diageo: Influence]])
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• Diageo: Corporate Crimes
  ...e drinkers.<ref>World Health Organisation, Global Status Report on Alcohol Policy, ibid.</ref>{{Template:alcohol badge}} ...0.02.05</ref>, there have been claims that its marketing has been aimed at groups at risk, such as young people.
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• Diageo: Influence
  ...fort to limit the statutory regulation of alcohol, and to steer government policy into protecting its own interests. It has achieved this through a huge inve ===Diageo's Policy on Responsible Drinking===
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• Diageo: Further Resources and Information
  ===Campaigning Groups Dealing with Alcohol Issues, and Support Groups=== ...to influence public policy. See some of their press releases about recent policy: http://www.alcoholconcern.org.uk/servlets/doc/897; http://www.alcoholconce
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• MPs for Hire:Whom does your MP Serve?
  ...ion to the store. The angry Hove people refused to give up, forming action groups and enlisting the help of their constituency MP to lobby the government on ...jobs, when many of their colleagues lobby for their constituents, pressure groups and the public for free.
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• Greenspirit Strategies
  ...vists to damage the reputation of the salmon aquaculture industry by using food-scare tactics that have no basis in scientific fact.<ref>Ibid.</ref> ...cation to leaders in the international marketplace. Senior Vice President, Policy and Planning for Greenspirit Strategies Ltd., and President of [[Figueiredo
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• CIA Media Operations in Chile, Jamaica, and Nicaragua
  ...os, permanent crisis, unnatural events, omens from heaven, death, gruesome food stories, household pets who eat their masters, children who inform on their ...in this area is discussed in a recent article in ''The Nation'', "Foreign Policy By Forgery "(April 11, 1981), by Ralph McGehee, a 25-year veteran CIA analy
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• Public Research and Regulation Initiative
  ...niversity of Cape Town, South-Africa. Thomson has links to industry-backed groups (see [[AfricaBio]]. ...ecutives from companies and business associations involved in agriculture, food processing and pharmaceuticals' was strikingly similar to what he is now tr
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• SustainAbility
  ...s in a better position to lobby for a cut in funding of corporate watchdog groups and networks … The UN's support, via the Global Compact, for the simplist ...now directs. She describes her interests as healthcare, climate change and food.<ref> [http://www.sustainability.com/team/sophia-tickell Sophia Tickell](ac
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• Pfizer: Influence / Lobbying
  ==Lobbying groups== ...ices take place through formal as well as informal channels. Many agendas, policy proposals are being carved out behind closed doors. On the one hand, multin
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• National Center for Public Policy Research
  The [[National Center for Public Policy Research]] (NCPPR) is a Washington DC based, right-wing free-market think-t ...n the DC-based think tank element of the backlash movement, including such groups as the [[Cato Institute]], the [[Competitive Enterprise Institute]] and [[C
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• Heartland Institute
  ...awl and urban transit) – Has spent three years as the Director of Public Policy of the [[American Legislative Exchange Council]] – See ALEC. ...nservative Network]], a project of the American Conservative Union, Health policy advisor to the American Legislative Exchange Council
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• Frontiers of Freedom
  ...ght-wing think tank describes itself as “a cutting-edge, forward-looking policy group advancing center-right principles in today's fast-paced news and info ...fforts to reform the federal tax code, the Endangered Species Act, and the Food and Drug Administration.<ref>[http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/obj
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• The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition
  ...ulate tobacco were based on the same "junk science" as efforts to regulate food additives, automobile emissions and other industrial products that had not ...d, European organization, tentatively named "[[Scientists for Sound Public Policy]]" (later renamed the [[European Science and Environment Forum]]). Like TAS
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• Unilever: Influence / Lobbying
  ...cess. Another main priority for Unilever is enhancement of its grip on the food chain. The promotion of GMOs and large-scale, export-oriented agriculture f ...ry well that their economic weight enables them to substantially influence policy decision-making processes, be it informally or formally, indirectly or dire
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• Unilever: Corporate Crimes
  ...expansion of market shares) Unilever aims at maximising the processing of food, which means adding value to ‘improve’ products and then charge more fo ...come of the poor rises, there is a big change they will spend the money on food products. Unilever is in a unique position to exploit this. They have expan
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• All-Party Parliamentary Groups in the House of Commons: Subject Groups
  [[All-Party Parliamentary Groups]] are unofficial groups of MPs who are interested in specific subjects. This listing includes thos ...parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/register/contents.htm Register Of All-Party Groups] [as at 22nd March 2012], accessed 23 April 2012</ref>
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• Westminster Diet and Health Forum
  .../forums/index.php?fid=westminster_food_and_nutrition_forum The Westminster Food & Nutrition Forum] and [http://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/forums/in ...nge ideas and information with leaders from industry, responsible interest groups, analysts, academics, journalists and others.' </ref>
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• Scottish and Newcastle
  ...e First Minister's official residence, numerous other businesses and lobby groups have offices within the vicinity. [[Image:S&N\'s_St_Andrew_Square_HQ.jpg| ...of trade associations that lobby the government in an attempt to influence policy S&N are members of the [[Portman Group]];of which [[John Dunsmore]] is a di
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• Written in Flames
  ...ement, he became director of Barclays Bank, Mercantile Credit, the Nabisco food and drinks chain and Vaux breweries. He lives at Crocker Hill Farm, Forest ...n 1983 he became director of BAT Industries, of the animal feed and health food group Booker, of Shel1 Transport and Trading and the McVities to Pizzaland,
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• Scottish Enterprise: History
  ...of heading a LEC. Such alliances are not unusual: we would find similar groups of supposedly competing banks always in existence, to a greater or lesser e ...ir industries, open their doors to foreign investment, freeze wages, raise food prices, slash social services and implement Bank-sanction population progra
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• National Farmers' Union
  ...sional Competence (EC 2003/59); Maximum Levels for certain contaminants in food (EC 1881/2006); VAT Directive (EC 2006/112); Markets in Financial instrumen ...e, given Portland's extensive links with the [[Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs]].
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• Bayer: Influence / Lobbying
  ===Lobby Groups=== ...olymer sectors, the company participates in an innumerable amount of lobby groups in order to safeguard its interests in all these fields. Bayer's economic a
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• Quintiles Transnational Corp.
  ...the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and healthcare industries through 3 main groups<ref>ibid</ref>... ...panies..., most of the leading biotech and medical/surgical companies, the Food & Drug Administration..., Wall Street, consulting firms and other health ca
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• Melanie Hickey
  [[Category:Foodspin Policy Groups]] [[Category:Food Industry People]]
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