Sentences with phrase «of food lobbying»

And I share your pessimism about the outsize influence of food lobbies.

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The well - funded dairy lobby spends a great deal of money (an estimated $ 80 to $ 100 million each year — ironically paid for by the higher prices consumers pay), persuading federal and provincial politicians that supply management «protects the family farm,» «ensures food security» and that, because these farmers are so numerous, doing anything to upset them would be political suicide.

Lobby in and of itself is not a bad word by the way, you can have a lobby for something as innocuous as natural food.

Back up in my room, I showered, dressed, and headed down to the lobby in search of food.

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In addition to freshening up its food and beverage offerings, Hotel RL launched The Living Stage in the midst of their open concept lobby spaces.

The strength of the European food industry's opposition to the traffic - light system is illustrated by the volume of scientific reports produced by food industry bodies in Europe and the intensive lobbying of EU parliamentarians around the time of the vote.

However, FoodDrinkEurope, the lobby that represents the interests of food manufacturers, slammed the Commission for putting «the cart before the horse».

After taking in the lobby's preserved mahogany pews and framed hymnals, take a seat at Rake's Progress, where James Beard winner Spike Gjerde of Woodberry Kitchen unites Southern food with mid-Atlantic ingredients.

1in133.org and all of its supporters in the gluten free community successfully lobbied the FDA to take up the issue of gluten - free food labeling regulations in 2011.

But after a year of heavy lobbying by the food industry, state and federal governments are avoiding Blewett's recommendations like the plague.

In the absence of clear imported food labelling requirements in Australia, Australian Organic Ltd has lobbied for truth in labelling for years, including a submission to the Council of Australian Governments» (COAG) review of food labelling law and policy, headed by Dr Neal Blewett, in 2009.

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He will oversee the financial and managerial operations as well as the execution of the hotel's newly launched food and beverage outlets including full - service restaurant, Letterpress; marketplace, Citrus28; lobby bar, Sunnies; poolside restaurant, Shades; in - room dining for 1,011 rooms, and catering for the property's extensive 92,000 square feet of meetings and events spaces.

The assistant health minister's chief of staff, Alastair Furnival, who intervened to pull down a healthy food rating website, has an interest in his wife's lobbying firm, which acts for Cadbury's parent company.

Read a sample of e-mails sent to MEPs by lobbyists High time for CIAA to come clean on its lobbying CIAA's $ 1 - billion campaign to promote the GDA labelling system was clearly a key element in its political strategy to combat other, stricter labelling options which it feared would damage sales of unhealthy food, such as the «traffic light» system.

The chief of staff, Alastair Furnival, resigned on Friday after being embroiled in allegations of conflict of interest over links with a firm lobbying for the junk food industry.

But Gustavo Arellano, a member of the selection committee and author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, loves these burritos — so much, he says, that he felt they were too personal a choice to lobby for.

As these regulations were hammered out, nothing was more disheartening than watching as our elected representatives — from both parties, by the way — cave in like cheap suitcases in the face of Big Food's lobbying efforts.

There have been some attempts to redesign the food pyramid to improve this problem, but several lobbying organizations always get involved in the process, which limits the influence of these efforts.

Some food activists saw the hand of the agricultural lobby behind USDA's initial suspension of the caps, and it's true that legislators from beef and grain producing states were in support of making this rule change permanent.

The SNA doesn't lobby for relaxing school food regulations because they're in the pocket of Big Ffood regulations because they're in the pocket of Big FoodFood.

And despite years of lobbying by the School Nutrition Association, Perdue made no change to one of the most important advances of the HHFKA — a requirement that kids must take a half - cup serving of fruits or vegetables at lunch, instead of passing up those healthy foods on a daily basis.

The elevator goes straight into the terminal lobby, where there are a wide range of fast food options and a Starbucks (blessedly!)

Private Eye cites other concerns, «While Nestlé's Aeros, Lion Bars and Golden Nugget cereal help us get fat, Kendrick is president of the Food and Drink Federation which successfully lobbies the government to do next to nothing about it.»

While it's true that our letter relates to the activities of an organization of which Nancy and I are not members, let's not forget that SNA's lobbying efforts, if successful, will have an impact extending well beyond the organization's «family» of 55,000 school food workers.

Fiona Kendrick, Chair and CEO of Nestlé (UK and Ireland), has been awarded a damehood in the New Year Honours for «services to obesity», in the words of Private Eye magazine, which highlights its marketing of junk foods and lobbying against policies to reduce obesity.

The School Nutrition Association (SNA), the nation's largest organization of school food professionals, is currently lobbying Congress to weaken federal school meal standards regarding whole grains, sodium and fruits and vegetables.

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Of particular note to me are the direct ties of two of the appointees to Big Food: Tkacz most recently worked as a lobbyist for the Corn Refiners Association, the trade group representing manufacturers of high fructose corn syrup, and previously lobbied for the Snack Food AssociatioOf particular note to me are the direct ties of two of the appointees to Big Food: Tkacz most recently worked as a lobbyist for the Corn Refiners Association, the trade group representing manufacturers of high fructose corn syrup, and previously lobbied for the Snack Food Associatioof two of the appointees to Big Food: Tkacz most recently worked as a lobbyist for the Corn Refiners Association, the trade group representing manufacturers of high fructose corn syrup, and previously lobbied for the Snack Food Associatioof the appointees to Big Food: Tkacz most recently worked as a lobbyist for the Corn Refiners Association, the trade group representing manufacturers of high fructose corn syrup, and previously lobbied for the Snack Food Associatioof high fructose corn syrup, and previously lobbied for the Snack Food Association.

But with the help of the beverage and snack food lobby, opponents have blocked the efforts.

The article quotes industry nutrition lobby group Specialised Nutrition Europe (SNE) as saying it «deeply regretted» the result of the vote: «This draft regulation would have completed a legal framework ensuring a high level of food safety and guaranteeing strong consumer protection for infants and young children..»

Thus in the last year, powerful food companies, agriculture lobbies, and various coalitions of lawmakers have allied in battles over each food area that USDA sought to restrict.

Global impact: The proposed new rules take no account of the global impact of foods exported from the EU, the need to ensure that they are in the right language, or how they will help corporations lobby for weak global trading standards and agreements (such as TTIP 14 or Codex 15).

The food companies that produce frozen pizzas, salt and potatoes have lobbied Congress for changes and now the final version of the bill released last Monday would block or delay school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year, according to the Associated Press.

Saturday On Saturday, I slept in until it was time to head over to the lobby of Belmont University's Trout Theatre where there were a variety of silent auction items from purses and paintings and baby food makers to gift certificates for restaurants and family music classes, and more.

We've recently formed a Healthy D.C. School Food Committee to address that and to lobby for other changes that advance the aims of the «Healthy Schools Act.»

There does seem to be an over-reliance on potatoes (and, thanks to the successful lobbying of potato growers, the new federal school meal standards won't prevent that practice from continuing), and the entrees tend to fall into the «doctored junk food» category of pizza, chicken nuggets and hot dogs.

This helped to counter heavy - duty lobbying from the baby food industry, US Chamber of Commerce and US State Department against new baby food regulations.

Today's day of lobbying is the culmination of the new film Food Inc.'s social - action campaign, organized by Participant Media for the Child Nutrition Reauthorization.

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Spending boatloads of money on professional lobbying and a massive postcard campaign to legislators, the organization and their deep - pocketed friends like PepsiCo, Coca - Cola, Con Agra and Schwan's killed the state school nutrition bill, ensuring many more years of junk food for New York's schoolchildren.

That change in course is seen by some critics (rightly, I think) as a desire to avoid conflict with Big Food — and its powerful lobbying arm — in the midst of a presidential election year.

When they go back to the original or some modified rule, the same people will complain again — and that is the work of the food industry lobby.

The sugar lobby is strong: While there are volumes of standards regulating the fat content of school food, there are no such standards for sugar.

At the recent meeting of the CCNFSDU, IBFAN members lobbied for the inclusion of the International Code under the scope of the infant formula standard, and the age of introduction of complementary foods to be at «about six months» as recommended by World Health Assembly Resolutions 47.5 and 49.15.

Only 35 countries have legislation fully implementing the Code — often because Nestlé and the rest of the baby food industry has lobbied against such measures.

The result, she said, is that lobbying from the food industry has historically influenced the agency's nutrition advice, including the composition of the new pyramid.

The National Fisheries Institute, an industry lobbying group, promotes the food pyramid on the front page of its Web site, highlighting the government's suggestion to consume more fish.