Grist: Pepsi spends $3 million a year so laws don’t come between corn syrup and your kids [View all]

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Pepsi spends $3 million a year so laws don’t 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