Important article: says WHO should treat Big Food like Big tobacco, w/ "critical measures to firewall industry’s profit-making interests from influencing policymaking for the health and wellbeing of public and to hold industry liable for harms caused" 1/ link.springer.com/article/10.105…
Cites FAO (Food & Ag Org), multinational group that invited in junk food multinationals as 'stakeholders.' This can easily lead to corporate agendas taking over.
Eg. a partnership between FAO and CropLife International, an international pesticide association 2/
Eg. a partnership between FAO and CropLife International, an international pesticide association 2/
FAO partnership with pesticide group "runs counter to FAO’s own programmes and codes of conduct that are seeking to minimize the harms of chemical pesticide use worldwide...Moreover, such a partnership may transform FAO into a business broker for CropLife member companies" 3/
Corporations have invaded spaces meant to protect human rights, the public health.
"Having businesses ‘at the table’ or as ‘stakeholders’ contributes to the weakening of standards."
Treat Big Food like Big Tobacco, w/ same restraints. Human rights are not their agenda.
"Having businesses ‘at the table’ or as ‘stakeholders’ contributes to the weakening of standards."
Treat Big Food like Big Tobacco, w/ same restraints. Human rights are not their agenda.
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