Corporate Accountability is een petitie gestart tegen de industriële lobby organisatie International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), een zogenaamd wetenschappelijke organisatie met 16 afdelingen over de wereld…… Deze organisatie geeft ‘wetenschappelijke verklaringen’ af waarmee zelfs het meest ongezonde, industrieel gefabriceerde voedsel als gezond wordt verkocht, zoals je begrijpt geldt hetzelfde voor met lanbouwgif bewerkte groente en fruit, zelfs als daar het kankerverwekkende glyfosaat van Bayer (Monsanto) overheen is gegaan……. Zelfs Coca-Cola wordt als een gezonde frisdrank verkocht en dat is het niet, zelfs niet met Stevia als suikervervanger……
The most powerful food industry group you’ve never heard of
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“A shadowy industry group.” “The most powerful food industry group you’ve never heard of.” Those are just two ways the New York Times described the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) in a recent exposè.1
So what exactly is ILSI?
Based in Washington, D.C., ILSI boasts 16 affiliated chapters across the world dedicated to advancing industry interests that often undermine environmental and public health protections on the behalf of some of the world’s biggest polluters
2, public health menaces, and labor rights abusers.3 For over four decades, ILSI has been peddling junk science and political influence for corporations like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Dupont, Bayer-Monsanto, and McDonald’s.It’s time for corporations to stop funding junk science, peddling it as public health information, and trying to influence public policies, often at the cost of public health.
That’s why, in the lead up to the annual shareholders’ meetings of these abusive corporations, we’re demanding that Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, McDonald’s, and ILSI’s other contributors stop funding this shadowy industry group immediately.
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Here’s just one example of how ILSI muddles the facts, sows doubt, and makes it harder to protect people’s health: When the World Health Organization released guidelines recommending people eat less sugar, ILSI swiftly funded a review that seemed to undermine these guidelines. The report “ignored the hundreds of randomized controlled trials” documenting the harms of sugar, according to Barry Popkin, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.4
As New York University Professor Marion Nestle put it, “This comes right out of the tobacco industry’s playbook: cast doubt on the science… It’s shameful.”
Together with a coalition of allies, we’re taking this message to Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, McDonald’s, and ILSI’s other bankrollers: We demand you stop funding ILSI immediately. Its junk science and shadowy policy interference aren’t only bad for global public health, workers, and the environment, they are also at odds with your corporations’ professed values.
As we head into the time of year when many of these corporations will hold their annual shareholders’ meetings, we need as many people speaking out as possible.
Together, we’ll make it clear to the executives and board members — while shareholders are present — that it is unacceptable to fund junk science.John Stewart
Deputy Campaigns Director
Corporate Accountability
1. “A shadowy industry group shapes food policy around the world,” The New York Times.
2. “Coca-Cola named the world’s most polluting brand in plastic waste audit,” Forbes.
3. “The fast-food industry’s dismal labor practices are just the tip of the iceberg,” The Washington Post
4. “Study tied to food industry tries to discredit sugar guidelines,” The New York Times
Corporate Accountability stops transnational corporations from devastating democracy, trampling human rights, and destroying our planet. We are building a world rooted in justice where corporations answer to people, not the other way around — a world where every person has access to clean water, healthy food, a safe place to live, and the opportunity to reach their full human potential.