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  • ...et to meet a member of the industry who does… The real issue is that the industry needs a public voice with the ability to make a convincing case and to disa ...it would be an unnecessary burden for Parliament to be a regulator of our industry, and that it would be an unnecessary burden on the public purse for there t
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  • This has been a great boon for the agrochemical industry and unsurprisingly they have been generous in their support of CGIAR center ...expensive intensive inputs may have proved lucrative for the agrochemical industry, it has meant increasing numbers of small farmers going into debt and leavi
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  • ...es and trade associations'. These are [[BASF]], [[Bayer]], [[Biotechnology Industry Organization]], [[CropLife]] America, [[Dow AgroSciences]], [[DuPont]], [[M ...'Inside the center, the Council for Biotechnology Information, a nonprofit industry organization, escorted farmers from India, Romania, and the Philippines to
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  • ...rty Chief Media Officer in 1998. He is also a former managing director of lobby firm [[GPC Market Access]] (Chief Lobbyist for [[British Airways]] (BA)) un ...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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  • '''CropGen''' is a biotech industry-funded lobby group that says its mission is to "make the case for GM crops and foods".<r ...ommunications]] which also represents the UK biotechnology industry funded lobby group the [[Agricultural Biotechnology Council]] (ABC), as well as Monsanto
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  • ...tection Federation) is a global federation 'representing the plant science industry' and led by the following companies: ...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> for its
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  • ...pointed after June 1999, he continued to serve as a member of the ACRE sub-groups on Best Practice in the Design of Genetically Modified Crops and on the imp Phil Dale is on the advisory council of the controversial lobby group [[Sense About Science]] which the [[John Innes Centre]] also helps to
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  • ...ean Association for Bioindustries]], is 'the voice of the European biotech industry'. It is made up of some 600 [http://www.europabio.org/eu_corporate.htm comp ...dence confirms that the perception of the profit motive fatally undermines industry's credibility on these questions.<ref>[http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/6
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  • ...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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  • ...uding the US industry's major trade association - BIO: the [[Biotechnology Industry Organization]].<ref>http://www.efbweb.org/who/natbio.htm</ref> and [[Associ ...cently acquired by [[BASF Plant Science]]. He links to several other lobby groups for biotech, including PRRI.( http://www.efb-central.org/index.php/forums/v
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  • ...orrespondent. In May 2010 he became, and continues to be, a trustee of the lobby group [[Sense About Science]] having accepted an approach from [[Tracey Bro Since May 2010 he has been a Trustee of the controversial lobby group [[Sense About Science]].<ref>[http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/ind
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  • ...sts of producers ahead of those of consumers. The FSA's independence from 'industry interests' is of 'paramount importance', according to the then head of the ...as expressed not only by stakeholders representing organic and GM interest groups, but by those who would be regarded as supporters and natural allies of the
    47 KB (7,517 words) - 13:25, 17 April 2015
  • ...reer seems never to have carried out any empirical research on 'terrorist' groups. Whilst at Cardiff he published his first book, ''Social Movement'' (1971)
    96 KB (14,650 words) - 11:21, 10 November 2013
  • ...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 ...try lobby groups]][[Category:GM]][[Category:GM Lobby Groups]][[Category:GM Lobby Websites]]
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  • The [[US Sugar Association]] is a US-based industry-funded body that states that its mission is 'to provide sound scientific in ...[http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940287,00.html Sugar industry threatens to scupper WHO] The Guardian, Monday April 21, 2003.
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  • ...lobby group in the UK for the food and drink industries. It 'promotes the industry's views and works to build consumer confidence in the food chain as a whole Industry Areas: The Food and Drink Federation (FDF), through its 50 members, directl
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  • ...pport to the vaccination programme. However, fierce lobbying from the food industry forced a U-turn: both [[Peter Blackburn]], the then chief executive of [[Ne In a letter written to [[Tony Blair]], Blackburn explained that the industry opposed vaccination because &#39;we were very afraid of the consequences on
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  • The [[Food and Drink Federation]] is a corporate-controlled lobby group which promotes corporate interests in three ways: *Placing industry people on relevant government panels to ensure that industry itself decides how or if it should be regulated.
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  • FDF policies are developed through industry-wide consultation, channelled through its governing Council, and advised by Communications Committee. This promotes industry messages to decision-makers and opinion formers including Parliament, centr
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  • ...ith reports, news, documents and information concerning the food and drink industry at {{ref|1}}. It also runs tangential websites aimed at getting &#39;scien ...social or political. It aims to safeguard the commercial interests of the industry and maximise its international competitiveness&#39;.
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