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  • ...ted 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 networks o ...out misleading information about issues such as nutrition, obesity and the food supply chain. <br>
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  • ...so called 'revolving door' between politics and the lobbying industry. For industry-specific lobbying, visit the relevant Powerbase portals (from the homepage ...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
    15 KB (2,018 words) - 04:00, 28 July 2017
  • '''ARISE''' (Associates for Research into the Science of Enjoyment) was a front group which worked to deny the risks of the consumption of tobacco and alco == Tobacco Industry ==
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  • ...nd reduce the incidence of alcohol misuse. Diageo believes that the drinks industry also has an important role to play in support of this effort' <ref> Diageo ...ety is protected and even strengthened. This in turn has given the alcohol industry a voice in policy formulation, allowing it to present to the British govern
    31 KB (4,686 words) - 21:21, 8 May 2009
  • ===Campaigning Groups Dealing with Alcohol Issues, and Support Groups=== ...UK government's alcohol policy has been created with the interests of the industry in mind.
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  • ...n the DC-based think tank element of the backlash movement, including such groups as the [[Cato Institute]], the [[Competitive Enterprise Institute]] and [[C :According to internal tobacco industry documents Ridenour is described in a 1995 memo by the Philip Morris tobacco
    11 KB (1,504 words) - 10:40, 7 July 2010
  • ...ulate tobacco were based on the same "junk science" as efforts to regulate food additives, automobile emissions and other industrial products that had not Tellingly the groups have worked together. In December 1997, they issued a joint press release s
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  • ...iotech products to be readied for the market and as such the whole biotech industry had an interest. The only problems were gaining approval for its commercial ...ich B-M was one. Pro-rBGH information was rapidly distributed to the dairy industry, the press and the general public. In this way a 'grass-roots' coalition wa
    29 KB (4,352 words) - 22:49, 15 May 2009
  • ...DuPont as providing synthetic plastics, rubber and textiles to the defence industry. {{ref|6}} According to the ''Ethical Matters'' magazine website, DuPont wa ==Control of the Food Chain==
    47 KB (6,825 words) - 19:46, 19 July 2007
  • ...vans emblazoned with the slogan "The Economic League Tells The Truth about Industry". One leaflet described the NUWM as "a purely Communist body" and continued ...miralty pointing out their interest in countering subversive activities in Industry and asking for any information they could have about him. The Admiralty dul
    60 KB (9,504 words) - 20:51, 1 February 2008
  • ...tandards: "The whole system relies on audits. Workers can be questioned in front of their bosses; audits are often short and sometimes take place just once ...g supermarkets carry out their business abroad. In Bangladesh, the garment industry employs around two million people and accounts for 75% of the country’s e
    64 KB (10,114 words) - 13:16, 8 September 2009
  • ...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 ...FAU helps to promote one voice across the food and soft drink advertising industry by co-ordinating the efforts of individual members and by working in partne
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  • ...ess than popular with the public. "There is a high suspicion of the pharma industry. Greed, dishonesty and fraud are some of its associations. The clinical tri ...vice president of R&D in the global fabric and home-care group, got up in front of his colleagues and declared that they had borrowed their approach to the
    54 KB (8,750 words) - 12:00, 28 March 2008
  • ...; 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
    66 KB (10,141 words) - 14:54, 13 July 2016
  • ...ng of EU directives. All of this undermines British businesses on the home front as they battle in global markets.' ''Sir Terry Leahy''{{ref|1}} ...bit of a problem with national and European regulation, and through lobby groups and close links with government, has sought to loosen ‘restrictive’ reg
    24 KB (3,559 words) - 01:27, 24 March 2014
  • ...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
    80 KB (13,052 words) - 17:55, 29 July 2007
  • More than eight million people had to do slave work for the Nazi war industry, and none ever received compensation from the companies or the government. 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
    75 KB (11,176 words) - 11:18, 24 August 2009
  • ...is compact would be better placed to deal with "pressure from single-issue groups". Again, they would be allowed to use the UN's logo. But there would be no ...its senior executives, [[Matthias Kleinert]], shaking hands with Annan in front of the UN flag. The article continues by stating that, 'they are not alone
    39 KB (5,546 words) - 15:37, 22 January 2010
  • ...ependent scientific analysis on issues ranging from personalized medicine, food and drug safety, health care reform and comparative effectiveness. <ref> CM ...(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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  • ===Business lobby groups=== ===Front Groups===
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