See: Authoritarians
[2012 Feb] Alcohol pricing: a battleground between health groups and drinks industry
[2010 Nov] McDonald's and PepsiCo to help write UK health policy The Department of Health is putting the fast food companies McDonald's and KFC and processed food and drink manufacturers such as PepsiCo, Kellogg's, Unilever, Mars and Diageo at the heart of writing government policy on obesity, alcohol and diet-related disease, the Guardian has learned.
[2010
Nov] Who is the government's health deal with big business really good for?
In the chair of the commission, by invitation of Lansley, was Dave Lewis,
UK and Ireland chairman of Unilever.....Lucy Neville-Rolfe, corporate affairs
director of Tesco, the supermarket that has been a leading opponent of the
traffic light food labelling scheme favoured by the Food Standards Agency, and
Lady Buscombe.....former head of the Advertising Association, where she
established herself as a formidable political champion of the ad industry's
right to operate free of restrictions. ....He not only subscribed to the libertarian view that public health
should be more a matter of personal responsibility than government
action; he bought in to the whole pro-business PR view of the world. (At
that time, Lansley was a paid director of the marketing agency Profero,
whose clients have included Pepsi, Mars, Pizza Hut and Diageo's
Guinness. He gave up the directorship at the end of 2009.)