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Posted On: 02/27/2018 8:06:15 AM
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The GMA is disintegrating. That is the group that fought with Monsanto to successfully defeat GMO legislation, good riddance,
Lobbying Group for Processed Food Industry Teeters on Brink of Extinction — Will Its Science Propaganda Arm Follow Suit?
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/a...=227428499
Story at-a-glance
The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), the largest and most powerful lobbying group for the processed food industry, is disintegrating; 50 of its members have now left
Companies that have separated from the GMA include Campbell Soup, Nestlé, Dean Foods, Mars, Tyson Foods, Unilever, Hershey, Cargill, Kraft and DuPont. Join the GMA boycott to finish the job and end the GMA
Several of GMA’s leadership have resigned, including its government relations, global strategies and health and nutrition policy executives. GMA president and CEO Pamela Bailey has announced she intends to retire later this year, after nearly a decade at the helm
Mars Inc. is also severing ties with the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) — the propaganda arm of the GMA that helps create and promote science that supports members’ interests — saying, “We do not want to be involved in advocacy-led studies that so often, and mostly for the right reasons, have been criticized”
Nestlé’s left the GMA due to conflicting stances on added sugar labeling, and Mars is now leaving ILSI because it promotes deceptive research on added sugars. Take action and encourage Nestlé to break ties with ILSI
Lobbying Group for Processed Food Industry Teeters on Brink of Extinction — Will Its Science Propaganda Arm Follow Suit?
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/a...=227428499
Story at-a-glance
The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), the largest and most powerful lobbying group for the processed food industry, is disintegrating; 50 of its members have now left
Companies that have separated from the GMA include Campbell Soup, Nestlé, Dean Foods, Mars, Tyson Foods, Unilever, Hershey, Cargill, Kraft and DuPont. Join the GMA boycott to finish the job and end the GMA
Several of GMA’s leadership have resigned, including its government relations, global strategies and health and nutrition policy executives. GMA president and CEO Pamela Bailey has announced she intends to retire later this year, after nearly a decade at the helm
Mars Inc. is also severing ties with the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) — the propaganda arm of the GMA that helps create and promote science that supports members’ interests — saying, “We do not want to be involved in advocacy-led studies that so often, and mostly for the right reasons, have been criticized”
Nestlé’s left the GMA due to conflicting stances on added sugar labeling, and Mars is now leaving ILSI because it promotes deceptive research on added sugars. Take action and encourage Nestlé to break ties with ILSI
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