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  • ...tch">SourceWatch, [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Front_groups Front Groups], SourceWatch website, accessed 20 March 2015</ref> ...spin are anything other than simple corporate [[Propaganda]]. These front groups are often very politically active; holding news conferences, publishing new
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  • ...also claims to be "the sole UK distributors" for "The Truth about Organic Food" - a book by [[Alex Avery]], a fierce critic of organic farming and a well ...ly to be highly limited amongst its customers in Wales, given the declared policy of the Welsh Assembly government of keeping Wales entirely GM-free. But Har
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  • ...> Pfizer is a member of one of the most important global corporate lobby groups, the International Chamber of Commerce. <ref>"[http://www.iccwbo.org/id1969 ...roversial corporations, including some from the oil, tobacco, pharma, fast food, and GM industry. It worked too for repressive regimes, including Egypt, Ha
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  • ...ate spin techniques. This page links to a wide range of GM lobby and spin groups. ==Front groups, Lobby groups and think tanks==
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  • ...> It defends GM foods, industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals, plastics and food additives. It attacks organic agriculture, media 'scares' and environmenta ...ducts as not having "a sound scientific basis". It has received funds from food processing and beverage corporations including Burger King, [[Coca-Cola]],
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  • ...s appointed in 2002. Previously he had worked for the Institute for Public Policy Research&#39;s (IPPR) Social Justice Commission Report (1994), which was im ...y draws from external expertise. Unlike the [[David Hume Institute]] and [[Policy Institute]], the SCF also cooperates with various organisations, including
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  • ...issues and priorities for the Board in accessing Black and Minority Ethnic groups into sustainable employment ...hool featured a modular curriculum including participative sessions on the policy context, partnership development, consultation and engagement with young pe
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  • ...lth Care, Agriculture, Polymers and Chemicals - which comprise 15 business groups worldwide.{{ref|49}} For an overview of the activities of the individual business groups and their key products, visit:
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  • ...says it "has grown into a $3,000,000 institution with a team of nearly 40 policy experts and other staff".<ref>"[http://web.archive.org/web/20020127163935/h ...romoting discussion on this subject among stakeholders such as scientists, policy makers, activists and journalists. He recently served on the [[USDA]]'s [[A
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  • * [[Mark Maslyn]], Executive Director, Public Policy ...lobby groups]][[Category:GM]][[Category:GM Farm Lobby]][[Category:GM Lobby Groups]]
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  • '''Cato Institute''' is a ‘public policy research organization - think tank’ which was founded 1977 by [[Edward H. ...al and Antitrust Violations of the Multistate Tobacco Settlement"], ''Cato Policy Analysis'', No. 371, May 18, 2000.(O'Brien is assistant general counsel to
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  • The '''American Enterprise Institute''' for Public Policy Research (AEI) was founded in 1943 and is located in Washington, DC. It is often called the Godfather of Washington neoconservative lobby groups and is America's richest, largest and most influential think tank. It was r
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  • ...r access. <ref>For more background on the oil industry and Iraq see Global Policy Forum, [http://www.globalpolicy.org/iraq/political-issues-in-iraq/oil-in-ir ...by bullet holes. This newspaper was told he was left immobile and without food or water for more than 24 hours. The firm has denied the boy - arrested for
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  • ...site, accessed March 25 2009</ref> founded CDFE in 1974 along with two gun groups: Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and the Second Ame ...k" where they talk about Rainforest Action Network's ties to other radical groups and "their anti-capitalist ideology, and their lawless and dangerous activi
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  • ...information on GM food on the internet to. CFFAR stands for the Center for Food & Agricultural Research and its website is not currently available, followi ...nisational structure, administrative location or personnel of this 'public policy and research coalition'
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  • ...prise and to promoting sound economic, scientific, and risk data in public policy decisions. '''Consumer Alert does work in the areas of biotech, trade, pest ...r Alert, the [[Competitive Enterprise Institute]], the [[Center for Global Food Issues]] - a project of the [[Hudson Institute]], and the [[American Counci
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  • ...international agreements and regulations on biotechnology" and to "inform policy makers, regulators and the general public about the objectives and progress ...701855993 Health Risks of Genetically Modified Foods]. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 49, 2, pp 164-175</ref>
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  • ...sed by President George W. Bush, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner [[Mark McClellan]]. [[Carl Feldbaum]] [[L. Val Giddings]] is BIO's Vice President, Food & Agriculture, with specific responsibility for GM crops.
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  • ...a number of Fortune 100 clients in the biotechnology, chemical, financial, food, consumer products and telecommunications industries.' The plastics indust ...source-poor citizens groups allied against corporate interests... business groups are employing the Web to influence public opinion and mount grass-roots-sty
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  • The [[British Nutrition Foundation]] (BNF) is the key food industry front group in the UK. The BNF promotes itself as a source of impa ...a. The Foundation is a charitable organisation which raises funds from the food industry, government and a variety of other sources.<ref>[http://www.health
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  • ==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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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]] ...-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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  • 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]] ==FDF Policy formulation==
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...>[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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  • ...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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  • 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ====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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...]] (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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  • ...to form a single company, '''Fishburn'''. The new firm comprises four core groups: ===Front groups===
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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ===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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  • ...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]] 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • #[[European Food Information Council]] needs references (referenced by Mat) #[[Land Reform Policy Group]] (edited and referenced by Neha)
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  • '''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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ===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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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]] 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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ===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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  • ...ips for them. This is also a favoured tactic of some of the industry lobby groups that DuPont funds such as [[CropLife America]], [[Grocery Manufacturers Ame ==Lobby Groups==
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  • ...Empowering Consumers Through Information’, at: www.pfizer.com/pfizerinc/policy/ERhealthcare.pdf) ...matter more than the lives of the world’s poorest people’, said Oxfam Policy Director Justin Forsyth. ‘Pfizer’s market value exceeds the combined na
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  • :"On every occasion the owners have deprecated this policy of concession to threats originating in the left wing of the Miners Federat ...ister of War), [[Edward Shortt]] (Home Secretary), [[George Roberts]] (the food controller), and Sir [[John Maclay]] (Minister of Shipping). As soon as the
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  • ...only began to change when in 1935 Italy adopted a more aggressive foreign policy which culminated in the conquest of Abyssinia. Nevertheless there were stil ...n fully aware of their importance to Ribbentrop's mission and Nazi foreign policy. The presence amongst them of enthusiastic supporters of the Nazis would ha
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  • ...luding a ban on the use of several chemicals. A coalition of environmental groups has launched a campaign for a ban on neonicotinoids in the UK.<ref>Rob Edwa ...ry: Biotech Industry]][[Category: Transnational Corporations]] [[Category: Food and Agriculture Industry]][[Category:Science Media Centre]]
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  • ...side the farm-scale trials, the UK government (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) carries out National Seed List Trials. In the UK these t ...deral institutions share responsibility for agricultural biotechnology and food safety.
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  • ...obby groups, funding academic research and directly influencing government policy. A recent Monsanto internal document leaked to GeneWatch UK revealed Monsan ==Lobbying Groups==
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  • Campaigning groups on GMOs ...to the imposition of GM technology. GEN includes local campaign and action groups NGOs, direct activists, and individuals campaigning against genetic enginee
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  • ==Lobbying Groups== ...onal issues. We work with the UK government, international legislators and policy-makers to help UK businesses complete effectively.'[12] The group has offic
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  • ...ut exploitation and in acceptable working conditions'. They advertise this policy as being in line with 'the [[Ethical Trading Initiative]]’s (ETI) base co ...s, subsidize Wal-Mart profits by paying for county public health services, food stamps and social services for its retired employees.'[5]
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  • ...arch 1997<ref>It was not formally set up until the following year, but the groups initially came together under this title to organise the July 1997 Countrys The Countryside Alliance is, formally, an amalgamation of three groups: the [[British Field Sports Society]], the [[Countryside Movement]] and the
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  • ...based at the NFU's London HQ building in Shaftesbury Avenue. They work in policy, services, membership and finance and administration. Each section has a Di ...he Council from NFU Cymru. The Council members approve matters relating to policy, strategy and finance. These Council members also elect the four national '
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  • ...hat it should represent the interests of the agro-chemicals companies, big food processors, corporate-owned single commodity farms and supermarkets as well ...involves big corporations. Part of this includes diversification into non-food crops, such as bio-fuels (willow, oilseed rape and miscanthus), ethanol and
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  • ...n to find out what British farmers think before coming up with their final policy. # Dr Vernon Barber, former pro-GM Food Science Adviser to the National Farmer's Union. The position is now held by
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  • ...able' and farmers will have to face up to this restructuring of the global food system as they can't resist it or fight the power of the multinationals. ...ture has and will create huge environmental and social problems,77 but the policy is also to the detriment of its members, especially smaller farmers and new
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  • ...on of trade in the farming crisis. It has build bridges with environmental groups and forged strong international alliances. A lack of both human and financi ...consultations and taking practical measures such as the SFA’s new local food initiative.
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  • ...on which aims to show the poorest rural communities ways of producing more food, thus becoming less reliant on aid’87) where he served as a board member * He served a three year term on the Agricultural and Food Research Council until 1994.
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  • ...d globalisation. Maucher has headed up major international corporate lobby groups such as the [[European Roundtable of Industrialists]] and the [[Internation ...al Chamber of Commerce working group on international trade and investment policy.[40] His varied roles occasionally provide conflicts of interest, as in 199
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  • ...spices of the [[Advertising Association]]. According to the FAU it is<ref>Food Advertising Unit Website http://www.adassoc.org.uk/aa/index.cfm/fau/members ...ising industry holistically. The FAU helps to promote one voice across the food and soft drink advertising industry by co-ordinating the efforts of individ
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  • ==Lobbying Groups== ...s associations, and claims to provide unparalleled access to international policy makers and regulatory authorities.’[46]
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  • ...or what their stomach craved. While the company has made the use of focus groups and test markets into an art form, it has kept such interaction with custom ...ution, shelving and focusing of co-marketing support to different consumer groups like pet owners and smokers is delivering outstanding results.’<ref>"Plan
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  • ==Lobbying Groups== ...steer research, no matter how unintentionally, towards the needs of large food producers and away from small-scale, sustainable production.
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  • ...; Tesco Superstore; and Tesco Extra, which carries the widest range of non-food products. <ref> The Independent Website [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/ ...ermarkets. Now these supermarkets take 75% of British shoppers spending on food in supermarkets. Tesco in particular has recorded huge growth, doubling its
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  • Appointed to the Board in April 2004. He has led the company's non-food and commercial and trading activities, following his role as the UK Marketi ...job at Sainsbury before the appointment of Justin King, previously head of food at M&S, was announced.9
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  • ...bit of a problem with national and European regulation, and through lobby groups and close links with government, has sought to loosen ‘restrictive’ reg ...gates' Welcome reception, and co-ran a fringe debate 'Promising the Earth? Food, Farming and Rural Communities': presumably a fascinating 'greenwash' occas
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  • ...able all year round it still transports millions of tonnes of food and non-food products around the world by air freight, and supports industrial agricultu ...hout actually having to do anything. As mentioned in the section on 'Lobby Groups', Tesco is represented in UNICE, which lobbies against binding targets for
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  • ...quently have directors who sit on the Government's task forces or advisory groups. There are also companies in the list who appear to have received favourabl ...d' staff to the Treasury since the 1997 election to work on developing PFI policy.
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  • ...atents after a handful of Anthrax cases resulted in four deaths, while its policy is to discourage poor countries from overriding patents to address the AIDS The Canadian anti-trust commission also found Haarmann and Reimer and other food additives manufacturers guilty of illegal price fixing in the case of citri
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  • ==Lobbying groups== Listed below are some of the groups with which ExxonMobil is affiliated or of which it is a member. This is not
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  • According to its website, the UN Global Compact 'is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations a ...ements are not binding as this is a voluntary initiative which relies on a policy of transparency and accountability, known as the Communication on Progress
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  • ...resentatives from two think tanks involved in the Network: [[International Policy Network]] ([[Julian Morris]]) and [[Centre for the New Europe]] ([[Stephen ...(CMPI) is a New York-based think tank headed by [[Peter Pitts]], a former Food and Drug Administration official who appears frequently on newscasts condem
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  • ...-poliy Should Pearson, a giant multinational, be influencing our education policy?], ''Guardian'', 16 July 2012</ref> ...ange from $9 to $13 a month (plus an additional $7 per month per child for food).<ref>Steve Klees, [http://www.educationincrisis.net/blog/item/1237-for-pro
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  • According to The '''School Food Trust''''s website: ...ucation and health of children and young people and improve the quality of food in schools.<ref>SFT[http://www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk/index.asp Website], S
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  • *[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9737/ 'Food, drink, drugs and holidays'], ''Spiked'', 31 January 2002. ...Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/9342/ 'Pill panics and food fights'], ''Spiked'', 2002.
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  • ...and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation. The [[FDA]] is also re ..., is reported to have previously served as a member of the United States [[Food and Drug Administration]]'s ([[FDA]]) SCIENCE Board (the FDA's highest advi
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  • The [[Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations]] (ACTPN) was created through the Trade Act of 1974<ref>Gr ...groups to gather input on trade issues and explain the president’s trade policy positions'<ref> United States Trade Representative [http://www.ustr.gov/Who
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  • ...DSA), the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 (FDAMA).Additionally, CRN CRN participates in the actions of [[Codex Alimentarius]], the [[Food Industry Codex Coalition]], the [[Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue]] (TABD)
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  • ...r are they the “collateral damage” of civilians caught between warring groups. They are the victims of a calculated and selective strategy carried out by ...f TERI as the "independent" assessor of Coca-Cola. This is because the two groups are reported to have worked together in the past (co-organizing Earth Day),
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  • ...ce of bad fortune that befalls its citizens. The team of seven will tackle policy areas where there are fears that the Government is in danger of overkill'<r ...the RRAC's work 'will involve regulators, risk experts, Parliament, lobby groups, the media and the public; it will not solely focus on government but also
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  • ...which has been highly influential in forming and carrying out EU agrofuel policy. The EBFTP purpose is "to contribute to the development of cost-competitive ...iofuel; three, and biotech with lobby group EuropaBio. One member from the food industry, one from a forestry company and one from an energy company, one f
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  • ...rts and Sciences]]. She is also on the Board of Directors of the [[Foreign Policy Association]] and on the Board of Trustees of [[Isamu Noguchi Foundation]], ...s previous involvements include serving as a member of the United States [[Food and Drug Administration]]'s (FDA) SCIENCE Board (the FDA's highest advisory
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  • ...in the majority of trials for terrorist offenses. Of course the terrorist groups wish a return to jury trials. They know that it would be impossible to reac :Members of the Irish Northern Aid Committee (Noraid) and other Irish groups have warned British businesses and organizations to lower their flags until
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  • ...nd involvement of businesses on the creation and implementation of alcohol policy, as well as some of the broader issues concerning the industry's organisati ...bsite [http://www.eurocare.org/who/policy/index.html Framework for Alcohol Policy in the WHO European Region] accessed 25/02/08</ref>
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  • ...rch on three core topics: Jerusalem, conflict resolution and environmental policy.<ref>[http://www.jiis.org/?cmd=about.54 Our History], Jerusalem Institute f ...uccessor [[Mark Sofer]] has expressed worries over '[t]he trend of certain groups and young people leaving' Jerusalem and described the city as having 'demog
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  • *[[Christian Hierholzer]], MD of Hanover's Brussels office and one-time policy adviser to the former chair of the European Parliament’s Environment Comm ..., and then returning to work at Hanover. Lewington said of Gilbert: “His policy knowledge and understanding of Government will be especially valuable as we
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  • ...eptember 2010.</ref> He studied Political Science, and served as a Science Policy Officer at the Bundestag (1993-1996). He was a member of the Foreign Office *Substitute, [[Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety]]
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  • ...the patent litigation business, have tried hard to push their [political] groups into supporting a motion which gives uncritical backing to the EPLA.”<ref ...ve on "establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy" (A5-0027/2000). The directive covers all water management aspects in order
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  • ...Christian-Democratic Workers]]; the deputy chairman of the [[Transatlantic Policy Network]] Parliamentary Group; the co-chairman of the Transatlantic Legisla ...PN is a powerful political / corporate network dedicated to influencing EU policy. [[Bertelsmann AG|Bertelsmann]] is a corporate member. Brok is also involve
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  • ...s of Sheep and Pigs Fed Roundup Ready Canola Meal. Mazza R. et al. J Agric Food Chem. 54: 1699-1709, 2006. The Mutational Consequences of Plant Transformat ...ad, the report champions “agroecological” methods as the best route to food security.
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  • ...ts. Rapaille has advised the [[International Food Information Council]], a food industry front group, on how to sell genetically engineered foods with "wor ...m], flatly refuse to discuss where they get their funding, and the [[front groups]] and [[think tanks]] that employ them are not required to disclose their f
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  • ...try through his Presidency of the [[Tourism Society]] and the [[Academy of Food and Wine Service]]. He is a Fellow of the [[HCIMA]] and was their Patron fo ...his seat in the House of Lords where he was spokesman on Tourism and later Food. He was a Highland list candidate in 1999. John spoke many times in the Hou
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  • ...means by which corporations have manipulated public opinion and government policy has transformed the environment movement's understanding of the world in wh *'''Dr Tom Wakeford''', biologist and action researcher at the Policy Ethics and Life Sciences Research Institute, University of Newcastle:
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  • ...effectiveness of marketing communication, typically focusing on vulnerable groups such as children, with particular emphasis on the presumed link between adv ...S.L., de Bruin, A.M. & Kitchen, P.J. Advertising and Children: Issues and Policy Options. forthcoming in Journal of Promotion Management.
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  • ...e Red scare years of 1918-22, the FBI regularly supplied private vigilante groups with "documents" seized in Red raids, just as [[J. Edgar Hoover]]'s FBI lea ...kers and saboteurs of airplanes to animal rights, antiapartheid, and peace groups as part of a continuing spectrum of subversives or terrorists.
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  • *[[George Lyon]], senior consultant to the agri-food practice from January 2015.<ref> [http://www.publicaffairsnetworking.com/ne ...’s Agriculture Committee, working on CAP reform, the EU budget and trade policy. Ex-member of the Scottish Parliament and President of the [[National Farme
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  • ...M maize was coming across the border from the USA, either as seed or as ‘food aid’ and that it was contaminating the indigenous species. ...Hector Magallon Larson. ‘He said these corn imports were only for human food and animal feed, so the corn shouldn’t be planted. They also said that th
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  • ...st environmentally friendly MEP in the UK by a consortium of environmental groups led by [[Friends of the Earth]].<ref>Foundation for Dialogue among Civilisa *Board member, [[Global Warming Policy Foundation]] (GWPF) think tank
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  • ...ramework for expanding renewable energy production in the UK. We undertake policy development and provide input to government departments, agencies, regulato ...us foundries. Joined the British Wind Energy Association, as Technical and Policy Analyst, in 1995. Since then has run the Landfill Gas Assoc, which became t
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  • ...Co-President of the Intergroup on Ageing and Older People. Both all-party groups are run by NGO secretariats, with no staff or resources given to my office. ...nd Co-President of the Intergroup, Ageing and Older People. Both all-party groups are run by NGO secretariats, with no staff or resources given to my office.
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  • ...essor of Energy Policy at Sussex University (SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research, The Sussex Energy Group) and research director of the [[UK Energy ...ity or Independence? (Apr-Oct 2011); and the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee for its inquiries on the Draft Climate Change B
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  • ...overnment, business and civil society bodies. Our collective experience in policy, politics and diplomacy gives us a unique capacity to catalyse change acros Advice: we provide high level advice on policy and politics to selected individuals and institutions. ' <ref>E3G, "[http:/
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  • ...ne 2009 he was re-appointed as a member of the GMO Panel of the [[European Food Safety Authority]] (EFSA), a position he has held since 2003.<ref>[http://w ...4 moved together with him to the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL), when the approvals system for the release of GMOs and field t
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  • Powerbase has a policy of [[Powerbase:A Guide to Referencing|strict referencing]] and is overseen ...safeguards against privileged access and unbalanced composition of Expert Groups.
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  • ...ver, in the second half of 2004 the DTI decided that the work of these two groups should be brought together under a higher level group to which both would r ...der the existing programme to rollout smart meters across the country. The groups said actions taken by the industry, Government and Ofgem over the next five
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  • ...ylard was previously head of the Soil Association, which certifies organic food and campaigns against GM crops and pesticides and Grant was head of Public ...viser to KPMG’s Corporate Finance Practice, Chairman of the [[Centre for Policy Studies]] and an active member of the House of Lords.
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  • ...s plans to exclude the risk of death from cholera as a condition of a life policy. This restriction, had it been introduced, might have spelled the end for t ...e name given the political doctrine which rationalized the brutal economic policy, was English Liberalism.” In essence, English Liberalism, as defined, jus
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  • ...many are well known GM supporters and are connected to UK institutions and groups closely aligned with industry. ...evidence and by urging scientists to engage actively with a wide range of groups, particularly when debates are controversial or difficult.” These “diff
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  • ...f ideas will be won or lost: in the media, on college campuses, and in the policy community, at home and abroad.”<ref>DefendDemocracy.Com, [http://www.defe In April 2002, in a seemingly coordinated move the [[Center for Security Policy]] and FDD ran television adds identifying Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat,
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  • ....12.1979 : Group for the Technical Coordination and Defence of Indipendent Groups and Members ....04.1980 : Group for the Technical Coordination and Defence of Indipendent Groups and Members
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  • ...travel were not being given the same prominence as those of environmental groups, which were warning of the dangers of growing carbon emissions.<ref name="U ...from Westminster where it campaigns for airport expansion and investigates groups opposing [[BAA]]’s plans.<ref name="Ungoed-Thomas"/>
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  • ...ns as a diplomatic tool but doesn't defend it against criticism at home, a policy of "stealth diplomacy" that he called unsustainable.<ref>[http://www.foxnew :What Crisis Group does is to fill the need that policy-makers in national governments have for smart, honest analysis and practica
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  • *Voted against the Commission White Paper on "Strategy for a future Chemicals Policy" (A5-0356/2001). The amendment helps avoid the necessary precautionary appr ...(A5-0229/2002). The amendment allows customers the right to choose GM free food.<ref>Friends of the Earth, [http://www.foeeurope.org/euvotewatch/support_do
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  • ...guard of truth seeking, truth telling', that it is 'further up the ''moral food chain'' than most other forms of communication,'(emphasis added) that 'jour ...resentation, regardless of the merit of their case'. 'I disagree with this policy', she notes, 'but it doesn't mean that unethical systems of information aut
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  • ...h engages in infiltration of media organisations and science-related lobby groups in order to promote its agenda as well as establishing a string of their ow ...]; deputy director: [[Ellen Raphael]]), [[Genetic Interest Group]] (former policy director: [[John Gillott]]), [[Progress Educational Trust]] (former directo
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