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This is an example of the strategic value of industry-funded alcohol information charities.The Scotch Whisky Association, as the spear tip of wider industry opposition, has spent years opposing evidence-based alcohol policy, including through legal action on MUP. #CDoH 🧵 
After MUP was voted into law (ie, democracy worked), industry (represented by SWA) took the government all the way to the Supreme Court in an effort to get it overturned, and succeeded in getting it delayed through that time bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…
As the recent MUP evaluations show, many lives were likely saved by the policy once it came into force, and the industries claims of potential impact on business turned out to be exaggerated scotsman.com/health/minimum…
Teaching children and young people about public health issues like gambling harms is challenging and involves engaging with complex concepts including the role of powerful vested interests🧵
It is important that education-based policies that seek to protect children and young people are open to scrutiny and that we consider carefully how they may favour corporate interests.
Yet this form of policy approach, which is often favoured and funded by the gambling industry, has received limited attention from the academic and public health communities.
🚨New paper alert! 🚨 "Meat, money and messaging: How the environmental and health harms of red and processed meat consumption are framed by the meat industry". Thanks to the fantastic @DrKathrynClare for leading us on this #CDOH paper. A short thread 🧵 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Reducing meat consumption has both health and environmental benefits, as highlighted by the Lancet EAT commission: eatforum.org/eat-lancet-com…
However, this does mean the meat industry may stand lose out in revenue and the potential for future growth.
⚡️ New paper just out from our research group! "Manufacturing doubt: Assessing the effects of independent vs industry-sponsored messaging about the harms of fossil fuels, smoking, alcohol, and sugar sweetened beverages" #CDOH @SPECTRUMRes sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 🧵below!
Background: We know that harmful product manufacturers, most notably tobacco, have sought to dispute the evidence on the harms they cause, to stall public support for effective policy and prevent informed customers from steering clear of their products
One way they do this is through “alternative causation arguments”. The tobacco industry was infamous for this, attempting to offer alternative causes for lung cancer. The key was to create doubt about the link to smoking.
"Exposed: The Strategies Big Alcohol Deploys to Interfere in WHO Alcohol Policy Consultation"
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@maikduennbier & @shehara_cooray analyzed 16 submissions of Big Alcohol front groups, shedding light on 4 Big Alcohol strategies to derail @WHO #AlcoholPolicy
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@maikduennbier & @shehara_cooray analyzed 16 submissions of Big Alcohol front groups, shedding light on 4 Big Alcohol strategies to derail @WHO #AlcoholPolicy
In total we identified 12 common strategies.
The 4 main ones:
1️⃣use of specific language to reframe the key problem 2️⃣demand to work in partnership with @WHO
3️⃣exclude WHO from @wto deliberations and
4️⃣attack SAFER & specific #alcoholpolicy #bestbuys.
📣movendi.ngo/blog/2021/03/1…
The 4 main ones:
1️⃣use of specific language to reframe the key problem 2️⃣demand to work in partnership with @WHO
3️⃣exclude WHO from @wto deliberations and
4️⃣attack SAFER & specific #alcoholpolicy #bestbuys.
📣movendi.ngo/blog/2021/03/1…
We debunk the lobby claims of Big Alcohol's front groups submissions:
❌No "interference"
❌No conflict of interest?
❌The problem is abuse/ misuse?
❌Expanding Big Alcohol's role in #AlcoholPolicy?
❌The best buys don't work?
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#BigAlcoholExposed
❌No "interference"
❌No conflict of interest?
❌The problem is abuse/ misuse?
❌Expanding Big Alcohol's role in #AlcoholPolicy?
❌The best buys don't work?
👉🏿movendi.ngo/blog/2021/03/1…
#BigAlcoholExposed
👏👏 New research published 👏👏 with @fi_sing @Kbackholer @HealthyAuckland and Dr Sally Mackay!
"Covid-washing" by Big Food brands on social media during the first #lockdown in Aotearoa NZ.
#CDoH @FMHS_UoA @FrontiersIn Nutrition
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"Covid-washing" by Big Food brands on social media during the first #lockdown in Aotearoa NZ.
#CDoH @FMHS_UoA @FrontiersIn Nutrition
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We searched social media posts of 20 big brands, 5 in each of 4 categories: confectionery, snacks, sugary drinks and fastfood. Across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Youtube from Feb-May 2020 pre-pandemic and then in Level 4, 3 and 2 Covid Alert Levels. 2/8
There were 1,368 posts, 27% related to Covid-19. Fast-food companies were the most likely to reference the pandemic, with a rapid increase in their number of social media posts just prior to the end of Level 4 restrictions. 3/8
"Nutritionism - or nutritional reductionism - is characterised by a reductive focus on the nutrient composition of foods as the means for understanding their healthfulness, as well as by reductive interpretation of the role of these nutrients in bodily health." (p2) #Nutritionism
👇 p13 #Nutritionism
- Preserves authority & interests of 'nutrition experts'
- Traditional & cultural knowledge of food, or people's sensual/practical experience with food is devalued
- Serves interests of food, supplement & wt loss industries (#CDoH)
- Preserves authority & interests of 'nutrition experts'
- Traditional & cultural knowledge of food, or people's sensual/practical experience with food is devalued
- Serves interests of food, supplement & wt loss industries (#CDoH)
"Nutritional gaze" - seeing food primarily as a collection of nutrients & in terms of a set of standardised nutritional concepts & categories so that it overwhelms other ways of seeing & encountering foods. (pp12-13) #Nutritionism
Did this quick search while listening to @RIAdawson & @IrishResearch #ResearchforPolicy seminar.
We need to include discussions re industry influence (#COI & #CDoH) on policymaking if we truly want to put the #publicgood at the centre of all of this
We need to include discussions re industry influence (#COI & #CDoH) on policymaking if we truly want to put the #publicgood at the centre of all of this
Would also like to see more discussion about ⬆️ interactions between researchers & policymakers at start of research cycle (setting & prioritising of research Qs), not just at dissemination stage #ResearchforPolicy
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"Many companies are racing to redesign sugar not out of an interest in the health of consumers but in pursuit of a healthier business."
See here for my comment in @NewYorker on a recent article by @nicolatwilley
A brief thread...
newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
"Many companies are racing to redesign sugar not out of an interest in the health of consumers but in pursuit of a healthier business."
See here for my comment in @NewYorker on a recent article by @nicolatwilley
A brief thread...
newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
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First, this wonderfully-written article dives into the history of sugar, additives, alternatives, reformulation, taste preferences, and perceptions.
For more from @nicolatwilley, I highly recommend @Gastropodcast, which is co-hosted by @cagraber
newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
First, this wonderfully-written article dives into the history of sugar, additives, alternatives, reformulation, taste preferences, and perceptions.
For more from @nicolatwilley, I highly recommend @Gastropodcast, which is co-hosted by @cagraber
newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
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The article reveals a clear incentive by the sugar, food, and beverage industries to find a tasty alternative with fewer negative health impacts. But is health really driving this "race to redesign sugar?"
In my comment I provide 3 reasons why this is not likely the case:
The article reveals a clear incentive by the sugar, food, and beverage industries to find a tasty alternative with fewer negative health impacts. But is health really driving this "race to redesign sugar?"
In my comment I provide 3 reasons why this is not likely the case:
👌🏾story by @TBIJ exposing how Big Alcohol exploits #COVID19 public health crisis.
See our collection of🌍stories on details of alcohol industry attempts for deregulation of alcohol laws, promoting a harmful alcohol norm, and more...
➡️movendi.ngo/blog/tag/bigal…
#BigAlcoholExposed
See our collection of🌍stories on details of alcohol industry attempts for deregulation of alcohol laws, promoting a harmful alcohol norm, and more...
➡️movendi.ngo/blog/tag/bigal…
#BigAlcoholExposed
Story from 🇺🇸for context:
➡️movendi.ngo/news/2020/07/0…
How is Big Alcohol affected?
What's the projected trajectory of #AlcoholHarms?
How has and is Big Alcohol lobbying to deregulate and make tax breaks permanent?
➡️All answered...
#BigAlcoholExposed #COVID19 #CDoH
➡️movendi.ngo/news/2020/07/0…
How is Big Alcohol affected?
What's the projected trajectory of #AlcoholHarms?
How has and is Big Alcohol lobbying to deregulate and make tax breaks permanent?
➡️All answered...
#BigAlcoholExposed #COVID19 #CDoH
Story from🇰🇪and East Africa for more examples of alcohol industry interference, deploying corporate social responsibility for political interference. In🇺🇬Big Alcohol provided hand sanitizer demanding the WAIVING alcohol taxes🚨
movendi.ngo/blog/2020/06/2…
#BigAlcoholExposed #COVID19
movendi.ngo/blog/2020/06/2…
#BigAlcoholExposed #COVID19
