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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)|Tim51 KB (6,350 words) - 06:29, 16 July 2019
- ...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 whethe8 KB (1,167 words) - 14:03, 4 September 2009
- ...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 the3 KB (472 words) - 13:55, 21 July 2015
- ...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 biot6 KB (822 words) - 09:56, 26 February 2015
- ...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 Gro32 KB (4,266 words) - 14:06, 18 October 2016
- ...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.6 KB (907 words) - 00:44, 5 November 2010
- 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 has31 KB (4,460 words) - 10:05, 11 May 2015
- ...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 L119 KB (16,177 words) - 08:21, 6 November 2021
- ...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 247 KB (7,517 words) - 13:25, 17 April 2015
- ...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 Ass13 KB (2,013 words) - 02:16, 9 March 2015
- [[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 ten20 KB (3,012 words) - 15:08, 10 July 2007
- The [[Food and Drink Federation]] is a corporate-controlled lobby group which promotes ...ims that the FDF is 'neither for, nor against, genetic modification in food production'{{ref|13}}. However, whilst posing as an impartial body, the36 KB (5,213 words) - 15:44, 10 July 2007
- [[Food and Drink Federation]] ==FDF Policy formulation==8 KB (1,140 words) - 14:23, 4 September 2009
- ...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 Congr9 KB (1,417 words) - 01:36, 10 December 2012
- ...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.68 KB (9,541 words) - 09:36, 26 March 2015
- ...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.ac45 KB (6,483 words) - 19:06, 29 March 2015
- ...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 t9 KB (1,489 words) - 15:33, 16 June 2009
- ...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 Ma13 KB (1,653 words) - 09:53, 10 May 2016
- ...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.7 KB (973 words) - 10:41, 30 September 2016
- ...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:5 KB (816 words) - 19:06, 3 October 2011
- ...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.o16 KB (2,237 words) - 09:40, 14 October 2016
- ...>[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 archiv11 KB (1,561 words) - 10:17, 10 August 2011
- ...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 'sa17 KB (2,547 words) - 01:05, 25 November 2013
- 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, governmen9 KB (1,140 words) - 10:39, 8 April 2015
- ...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, vandal7 KB (1,110 words) - 17:59, 25 November 2008
- ...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>16 KB (2,375 words) - 20:55, 6 September 2010
- ...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 toget27 KB (3,759 words) - 09:52, 31 August 2015
- ...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/PolicyPositionPap4 KB (615 words) - 14:31, 4 September 2009
- ...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/releas5 KB (774 words) - 11:19, 20 February 2009
- ...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 the6 KB (923 words) - 14:44, 19 April 2009
- ...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 h8 KB (1,268 words) - 21:01, 15 March 2009
- ====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 pr64 KB (7,145 words) - 05:44, 6 March 2018
- ...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 Inst8 KB (1,196 words) - 18:13, 17 March 2010
- ...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/Docum10 KB (1,428 words) - 16:35, 19 April 2009
- 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.12 KB (1,776 words) - 13:11, 9 September 2009
- ...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 Fore6 KB (993 words) - 17:50, 3 February 2009
- ...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> Indeed19 KB (2,678 words) - 13:37, 5 October 2010
- ...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 ed15 KB (2,409 words) - 14:55, 4 September 2009
- ...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]]7 KB (926 words) - 22:24, 22 March 2011
- ...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:31 KB (4,658 words) - 21:15, 18 May 2010
- ...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-env2 KB (375 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2009
- ...]] (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 medic9 KB (1,418 words) - 17:25, 27 March 2009
- ...to form a single company, '''Fishburn'''. The new firm comprises four core groups: ===Front groups===41 KB (5,204 words) - 13:23, 3 March 2017
- ...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 objective68 KB (8,353 words) - 13:31, 3 March 2017
- ...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 Use30 KB (4,547 words) - 04:42, 25 July 2015
- ...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 Trade40 KB (5,611 words) - 08:19, 17 January 2020
- ...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 house53 KB (7,448 words) - 11:21, 25 February 2015
- ...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.31 KB (4,583 words) - 17:21, 12 March 2012
- ===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]60 KB (7,789 words) - 01:17, 9 November 2018
- ...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]]".19 KB (2,922 words) - 14:33, 22 September 2015
