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Comparing Coke and Carrots (on Coke's Tab)

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

At a conference on sugar and other sweeteners, medicine and epidemiology professor Adam Drewnowski challenged the World Health Organization's characterization of soft drinks as "energy-dense foods." He said that soft drinks' "high water content gives them the energy density of fresh carrots." Oldways Preservation & Exchange Trust, a think tank on food issues, organized the conference, which was sponsored by Coca-Cola's

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Main Source: 
Wall Street Journal, October 22, 2004
Topics: 
Food Safety
Corporations
Science

Accidental Full Disclosure by the FCC

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

"A trade association that represents competitors of the large regional telephone companies" had their lobbying plan "published by mistake on the Federal Communications Commission's Web site." The Association for Local Telecommunication Services's (ALTS) lobbying plan "starkly criticized the policy positions of FCC members and lawmakers and described the need for the association to hire, for $120,000 a year, a 'heavyweight Republican [lobbyist] that can navigate between the FCC chairman and the White House.'" The plan also said "ALTS has 'he

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Main Source: 
Washington Post, October 6, 2004
Topics: 
Corporations
Lobbying

The Rotten Taste of Success

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

"Food industry lobbyists met privately with Bush administration officials 10 times while the government was crafting rules to protect the food supply from bioterrorism." The Center for Science in the Public Interest stated, "The result is regulations that the industry likes, but that don't fully protect the public interest." The Grocery Manufacturers of America, Altria Group and others lobbied to weaken propos

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Main Source: 
Washington Post, September 30, 2004
Topics: 
Food Safety
Terrorism
Corporations
Lobbying

Sugar Gets Sweet Spin

Submitted by Laura Miller on

"The Oldways Preservation Trust, which earlier this year held a conference in Italy to promote pasta, is organizing another journalists' confab, this time to discuss the virtues of sugar," PR Week reports. "The trust ... has secured the Beverage Institute for Health and Wellness, a Coca-Cola affiliated organization, as a sponsor for its Conference on Sweetness and Health in Mexico City. ...

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Main Source: 
PR Week (sub. req'd.), September 22, 2004
Topics: 
Food Safety
Corporations

EPA: What's a Little Toxic Emission Among Friends?

Submitted by Diane Farsetta on

"For the third time, environmental advocates have discovered passages in the Bush administration's proposal for regulating mercury pollution from power plants that mirror almost word for word portions of memos written by a law firm representing coal-fired power plants." The passages, in language from the Latham & Watkins firm, say the

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Main Source: 
Washington Post, September 22, 2004
Topics: 
Corporations
Environment
Lobbying

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