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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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  • ...ompetitive Enterprise Institute]] (CEI) where he "specialises in issues of food and pharmaceutical drug safety regulation, and on the general treatment of ...Forum]] website. In it Conko suggests that concerns about the safety of GM food are merely a cover for "trade protectionism" and "anti-science fearmongerin
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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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  • ...ore 'cash for access' scandals (other clients include [[Novartis]], the GM food company). Lexington's clients include [[Novartis]] and the UK biotechnology industry lobby group the [[Agricultural Biotechnology Council]] (ABC).
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  • '''CropGen''' is a biotech industry-funded lobby group that says its mission is to "make the case for GM crops ...by [[Lexington Communications]] which also represents the UK biotechnology industry funded lobby group the [[Agricultural Biotechnology Council]] (ABC), as wel
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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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  • ...May 1989; p.28; David Green, ‘Policies for all reasons in a Tory vacuum; Food white paper’, The Times, 28 July 1989</ref> [[Category:Healthcare Industry]][[Category:Conservative movement]]
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  • USAID took ABSP into phase II in 1998 and then, at the FAO's World Food Summit: Five Years' Later in 2002, it launched the [[Collaborative Biotechn ...of its key consortium partners is ISAAA, a pro-GM outfit funded by the GM industry, ABSP II and USAID, which has become famous for its annual reports on globa
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  • ...ouston, specialising in the role of technology in economic development and food production. ...i, Thomas R.]][[Category:Pro-GM Lobbyists|DeGregori, Thomas R.]][[Category:Industry-Friendly Experts|DeGregori, Thomas R.]]
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  • ...ttee on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP), which advises Ministers and the Food Standards Agency on the safety of GM foods, from 1998 to the present. ...it is toxic only to insects and not to rats or humans. Also, rats fed with food spiked with the natural (non-GM) form of the lectin did not suffer ill effe
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  • ...ight|200px| Durodie's 1999 pamphlet ''Poisonous Dummies'', for the Tobacco industry funded [[European Science and Environment Forum]]]] ...0000414152001/http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM114/LM114_FoodReg.html 'Euro food regulation: poisonous dummies'], ''Living Marxism'', No. 114 - October 1998
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  • ...ces to the police and acts as the Government’s official chemist, testing food and drugs for safety. He was previouslt chair of [[Glory Global Solutions]] ...as 'a Consultant of the British government on the questions of education, industry, creation and e-business.'<ref>[https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/p
    26 KB (3,751 words) - 10:03, 4 September 2017
  • ...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.
    31 KB (4,460 words) - 10:05, 11 May 2015
  • ...uding the US industry's major trade association - BIO: the [[Biotechnology Industry Organization]].<ref>http://www.efbweb.org/who/natbio.htm</ref> and [[Associ Several members of their Board have direct links with GM industry. A few examples:
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  • ...Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and substitute member for the [[Industry, Research and Energy Committee]].<ref>Rowell, Andy, "[http://spinwatch.org/ ...England', which is of course a venture capital firm set up to fund biotech industry developments.<ref>European Parliament, [http://www.spinwatch.org/files/wiki
    31 KB (4,326 words) - 20:40, 21 May 2012
  • ...fessor Sir [[John Krebs]] ([[University of Oxford]], the chairman of the [[Food Standards Agency]]) | Professor {[Sheila McLean]] (Director, Institute of L ...links lobby: Every day there seems to be a new study making a link between food, chemicals or lifestyle and ill-health. None of them has any link with real
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  • ...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 2
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  • ...demic background with industrial experience gained while a Fellow of the [[Industry and Parliament Trust]], working particularly on day to day industrial manag ...(A5-0229/2002). The amendment allows customers the right to choose GM free food.<ref>Friends of the Earth, [http://www.foeeurope.org/euvotewatch/support_do
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