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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGrist: Pepsi spends $3 million a year so laws don’t come between corn syrup and your kids
Pepsi spends $3 million a year so laws dont come between corn syrup and your kids
by Christopher Mims
27 Dec 2011 12:19 PM
Ironically-named food hero Marion Nestle just calculated that PepsiCo, which pumps enough high fructose corn syrup into the American public to turn out one Ghostbusters-size Stay Puft marshmallow man every 18 hours (I made that up; you get the idea), spends $3 million a year lobbying Congress.
So what is Pepsi doing dumping all that loot on 1-percenters who supposedly represent the American public on Capital Hill?
One motivation, according to the Sunlight Foundation, is the company's effort to stop the government's Interagency Working Group from proposing guidelines on food marketing aimed at kids. .................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.grist.org/list/2011-12-27-pepsi-spends-3-billion-a-year-so-laws-dont-come-between-corn-syr
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Grist: Pepsi spends $3 million a year so laws don’t come between corn syrup and your kids (Original Post)
marmar
Dec 2011
OP
The sooner we realize that we've been turned into wastebaskets for corporations,
Boston_Chemist
Dec 2011
#2
The fact that anybody would make you spend $3 million to counter lobby is absurd
Nuclear Unicorn
Dec 2011
#3
tridim
(45,358 posts)1. But the teevee said "your body doesn't know the difference"
Whenever I hear that I ask, is my tounge not part of my body? It sure as hell knows the difference.
Boston_Chemist
(256 posts)2. The sooner we realize that we've been turned into wastebaskets for corporations,
the sooner we will be happy.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)3. The fact that anybody would make you spend $3 million to counter lobby is absurd
Why the hell should the government be regulating corn syrup? We have a hard enough time keeping them out of my bedroom and uterus, but I'm supposed to invite them into regulating my diet.
No thanks.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)4. Its not just Pepsi, all the soft drink makers do the same.