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• Front groups
  ...tch">SourceWatch, [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Front_groups Front Groups], SourceWatch website, accessed 20 March 2015</ref> ..., and featuring on talk shows in an effort to divert public opinion toward industry views.<ref>Mark Megalli and Andy Friedman (March 1992), [http://multination
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• LM network
  ...s book ‘Let’s Build’ calling for government support for the building industry <ref>"[http://www.audacity.org/buy.htm Buy]" Audacity website, accessed 5 J ...competition which include such subjects of interest to the pharmaceutical industry as: the value or otherwise of complementary medicine, NHS rationing of expe
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• GM lobby groups
  ...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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• American Council on Science and Health
  ...> It defends GM foods, industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals, plastics and food additives. It attacks organic agriculture, media 'scares' and environmenta ==Industry funding==
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• Food Industry lobby groups
  This page links to a range of 'Front Groups' and corporate lobby groups engaged in trying to undermine effective action on public health in the cor ==Corporate lobby groups==
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• Competitive Enterprise Institute
  It is described by PR Watch as "an ideologically-driven, well-funded front for corporations opposed to safety and environmental regulations that affec ...ment Off Our Backs]], the [[National Consumer Coalition]] (a pro-corporate front group headed by [[Frances Smith]], the wife of CEI founder [[Fred Smith]]),
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• Cato Institute
  ...b.org/sierra/200207/thinktank_printable.asp Rethinking the Think Tanks How industry-funded "experts" twist the environmental debate]Sierra Club magazine, Acces ...b.org/sierra/200207/thinktank_printable.asp Rethinking the Think Tanks How industry-funded "experts" twist the environmental debate]Sierra Club magazine, Acces
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• American Enterprise Institute
  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 ...gathering of leading GM lobbyists assembled outside of the [[Biotechnology Industry Organization]]'s annual conventions.<ref>"[http://www.aei.org/events/eventI
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• Erinys International
  ...t in 2003 to guard Iraq oil installations and according to Newsday &#39;an industry source familiar with some of the internal affairs said Chalabi received a $ ...p "introduced us to people in the U.S. government who were involved in oil-industry security," Braus said. At the Cohen Group, [[Christine Vick]] and [[Paul Ge
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• Center for Consumer Freedom
  ...y targets groups seeking to promote controls relating to alcohol, tobacco, food safety, animal rights or the environment. ...g pro-consumer choice, the Consumer Freedom campaign vehemently opposes GM food labelling.
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• Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
  ...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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• Center for Food and Agricultural Research
  ...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 ...nd understanding health, safety, and sustainability issues associated with food and fiber production.' However, no details are given of the history, consti
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• AfricaBio
  ...ican Agricultural Technology Foundation]], which receives backing from the industry and [[USAID]] to introduce GM crops into Africa. Thomson's book ''Genes in ...ed [[Biotechnology Industry Organization]] - presents itself simply as the industry's major trade association.
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• Alex Avery
  ...r of Research and Education at the [http://www.cgfi.org/ Center for Global Food Issues] at the [[Hudson Institute]]. ...spent defending his father's claims, particularly those affecting organic food.
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• Rick Berman
  ...[[Mothers Against Drunk Driving]], animal rights activists, food watchdog groups and trade unions. ...t Rick Berman, A.K.A. "Dr. Evil"] accessed 12th November 2009 </ref>. The groups fronted by Berman that he claims as clients are: <ref> Berman & Company Web
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• Biotechnology Industry Organization
  Based in Washington DC, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) was established in July of 1993 under the leadership of As the industry's major trade association, BIO represents large and small companies, as wel
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• British Nutrition Foundation
  ...ource of impartial information, but it does not always make its links with industry clear. ...e Foundation is a charitable organisation which raises funds from the food industry, government and a variety of other sources.<ref>[http://www.healthlinks.net
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• CropGen
  '''CropGen''' is a biotech industry-funded lobby group that says its mission is to "make the case for GM crops ...by [[Lexington Communications]] which also represents the UK biotechnology industry funded lobby group the [[Agricultural Biotechnology Council]] (ABC), as wel
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• Bill Durodié
  ...ight|200px| Durodie's 1999 pamphlet ''Poisonous Dummies'', for the Tobacco industry funded [[European Science and Environment Forum]]]] ...0000414152001/http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM114/LM114_FoodReg.html 'Euro food regulation: poisonous dummies'], ''Living Marxism'', No. 114 - October 1998
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• European Science and Environment Forum
  ...fety regulations are based, and it was initially a creation of the tobacco industry, which promoted the idea of "junk science" and overregulation. ...d Science Coalition]] (TASSC), a front group created to assist the tobacco industry in its fight against regulation of secondhand cigarette smoke.
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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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• Foodsecurity.net
  ...lf as 'the web's most complete source of news and information about global food security concerns and sustainable agricultural practices'. ...ndana Shiva is an Indian environmentalist strongly critical of the biotech industry) or [http://www.foodsecurity.net/news/newsitem.php3?nid=1860&tnews=news Alt
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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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• L. Val Giddings
  ...e Washington DC-based [[Biotechnology Industry Organization]] (BIO) - the industry's major trade lobby which represents such corporate giants as Aventis, Bay ...ch raises more questions about the role played in this PR spectacle by the industry's biggest lobby organisation, BIO and by Giddings who was in Johannesburg a
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• Doug Powell
  ...director for Guelph's [[Food Safety Network]], formerly known as the Agri-Food Risk Management and Communications Project, which Powell has attempted to o ...odified Foods Backed by Scientists, Regulators and Farmers], International Food Safety Network website, accessed 17 July 2009</ref>
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• All-Party Parliamentary Food and Health Forum
  ...ce and 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
  ...Director – Ex-Reagan executive director of the President's Task Force on Food Assistance. ...oundation]], and the [[Carthage Foundation]], all of which fund right-wing groups in the US[9].
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• International Policy Network
  ...nge deniers?], CEO Report p.3,Accessed 11 February 2011</ref> Some unknown industry / industries are now funding ESEF / IPN to counter the environmental moveme ...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
  ...hnology', saying it wants to "combat the misinformation put out by radical groups' who oppose genetic engineering". It claims this technology is actually 'sa ...proxies. ([http://www.gene.ch/genet/2002/Apr/msg00049.html The Promise of Food Security], April 4 2002)
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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 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 :Prominent researchers from industry and academia jointly lead ILSI, guiding its work to encourage scientific di
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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
  ...Protection Association]], which represents the interests of the pesticides industry. Lexington also had [[Monsanto]] and the [[Agricultural Biotechnology Coun ====Biotech front groups====
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• Steven Milloy
  ...of Science, accessed 7 February 2009.</ref> In reality it is a label that industry supporters use to attack any science that shows that industrial products an ==Industry Connections==
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• Science and Environmental Policy Project
  ...e, p139-143; S. Rampton & J. Stauber (2001) Trust Us, We’re Experts, How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Yours Future, Tarcher / Putnam, p272-2 ...h Ellsaesser]][8]. He is also on the Advisory board of the corporate front groups ACSH.[9] He appeared along with a whole host of anti-greens on the program
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• Nichols-Dezenhall
  ...hose trademark is its "aggressive" campaigns to counter community activist groups. It has been called "the pit bull of public relations."{{ref|1}}. The comp ...mical industry sponsored a tour of New Zealand by [[Ron Arnold]]. Wise Use groups have sprung up in Australia sporting bumper stickers such as, 'Fertilize th
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• Project 21
  ...s release at the time of a speech by George W. Bush at the [[Biotechnology Industry Organization]] conference in Washington, D.C. in June 2003: ...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
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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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• 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 However, the Alliance is seen by many as a corporate-friendly front group forwarding its own extreme agenda. It is also perfectly prepared to a
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• Scottish Enterprise
  ...t-us-details.htm?articleid=14868 Ardana Bioscience scoop two biotechnology industry awards]", Scottish Enterprise website, accessed October 2008</ref> "Already our biotechnology industry is world famous for Dolly the sheep," Lennox enthused. Dolly, the first mam
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• Social Issues Research Centre
  ...SIRC mentioned, on the back cover of the report, only that HRT Aware was "industry supported."<ref>SIRC. [http://www.sirc.org/publik/jubilee_women.pdf Jubilee ...or the pharmaceutical industry - HRT Aware - and that it formed part of an industry-fashioned campaign.<ref>Jocalyn Clark, [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/ar
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• Burson-Marsteller
  ...s (PR) agencies in the world and also the most notorious. When helping its industry clients to escape environmental legislation or sprucing up the image of som ...rfing]]' campaigns PR helps to maintain a legislative environment on which industry can avoid real change.
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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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• Elizabeth Whelan
  '''Elizabeth Whelan''' is co-founder and president of the industry front group, the [[American Council on Science and Health]] (ACSH). She defends p Whelan says: "I've been called a paid liar for industry so many times I've lost count."<ref>"[http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/1998
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• Portman Group
  ...e alcohol industry that claims to promote social responsibility within the industry, primarily focusing on responsible marketing, labelling and speaking for it ...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
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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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• Economic League
  ...to its blacklist. But the League sold on its blacklist to the construction industry which set up a trade association - The Consulting Association - to continue ...]] Director of the [[National Publicity Agency]] lobbyists for the Brewery Industry
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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: ...the process. The government is also involved in the initiatives as well as industry experts.”Source: Barbie Clark interview with Cathy Loblaw and Diana Carra
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• United Biscuits
  ===Front Groups=== *[[Industry and Parliament Trust]]
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