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Corporate front groups create an imaginary ecosystem or experts and credentialed authorities. It is impossible to imagine how saturated and polluted our information sources could be. This is an excellent list of dirtbags operating in the food sector. Simply scanning the number documented in 2010 hints where we may be now.

Some of the Powerbase links in Wayback are live but the list is better used to verify an entity is a front or an individual a shill then try a web search.

Corporate Dirtbag Trackers

Center for Media and Democracy - CMD PRWatch

CMD was founded in 1993 by John Stauber in Madison, Wisconsin. In March 2018, Arn Pearson became CMD's Executive Director, succeeding Lisa Graves, who served as executive director from 2009-2018 and currently serves as board President. CMD's team includes researchers, data experts, FOIA experts, lawyers, and fact-checkers. CMD is a 501©(3) tax-exempt non-profit.

CMD's groundbreaking exposés are featured on ExposedbyCMD.org. The watchdog also publishes SourceWatch, an encyclopedia of corporations, corporate special interest groups and their leaders; specialized investigative websites, including ALECExposed.org; and its founding website, PRWatch.org.

What We Do

The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is a nationally recognized watchdog that leads in-depth, award-winning investigations into the corruption that undermines our democracy, environment, and economic prosperity.

The Koch brothers and their network of billionaires are operating with a reach and resources that exceed those of political parties and they are using that power to erode the integrity of our elections and sap taxpayer dollars away from investments in public infrastructure, education, and healthcare to benefit narrow special interests and global corporations.

CMD's investigations, public information requests, and lawsuits have ignited national conversations on money in politics and the distortion of U.S. law and democracy – at every level of government and in every region of the country. We believe in the public's right to know how government operates and how corporations influence our democracy – and the true motivations for their actions. When necessary, CMD litigates to defend that right and ensure those in power follow the law.

Since CMD first exposed ALEC in 2011, more than 100 corporations have dropped ALEC, including Verizon, Ford, Coca-Cola, Wal-Mart, General Electric, and Google. As a result of that ongoing investigation and other reporting, CMD is often contacted by whistleblowers wanting to make a difference. CMD has also researched the array of groups that are part of ALEC, including numerous Koch-funded entities and national and state “think tanks” that are affiliated with the State Policy Network.

CMD files more than 1,000 public information requests each year. This investigative watchdog work has broken through in the national debate. For example, CMD exposed EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's deep ties to the fossil fuel industry and revealed lobbyist efforts to hide Chamber of Commerce members' overwhelming support for raising the minimum wage and providing paid sick leave, among other groundbreaking investigations.

Ground-breaking books by writers from the Center for Media and Democracy

Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans

Toxic Sludge Is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry Visit the SourceWatch Portal on Toxic Sludge1)

Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles With Your Future 2) Wayback Library Edition 3)

Mad Cow USA

Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq

Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing is Turning America Into a One-party State

The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned Lies and the Mess in Iraq 4)

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AlexExposed

Home 5) Spin - 6) Chambers of Commerce - 7) ALEC Koch Bros - 8)

CorpWatch

About CorpWatch

Our mandate is to provide accurate, timely and easily accessible articles, reports and data on violations by multinational corporations to activists, media, the general public and policy makers. 9)

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PEER - Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility

About PEER

PEER supports current and former public employees who seek a higher standard of environmental ethics and scientific integrity within their agencies. We do this by defending whistleblowers, shining the light on improper or illegal government actions, working to improve laws and regulations, and supporting the work of other organizations.

All our services are provided pro bono, without charge. Through PEER, public servants can choose to work as “anonymous activists” so that public agencies must confront the message, rather than the messenger.

How We Work » The PEER Mission

PEER protects public employees who protect our environment. We are a service organization for environmental and public health professionals, land managers, scientists, enforcement officers and other civil servants dedicated to upholding environmental laws and values. We work with current and former federal, state, local and tribal employees.10)

FedSpending.org

Sadly tracking ended in 2015 but it's still a goldmine of contract funding, subs & shells. Percentage totals in far right is the total percent of Federal Budget given to each contractor. Top 5 net 20% - Priorities! 11)

Powerbase FoodSpin Project

Lobbying and PR firms and their personnel who work for the food industry as well as lobbyists and PR people inside food, advertising, media and toy companies.

This category is part of our Foodspin project.

See also:

  • Food Industry lobby groups
  • Foodspin Front Groups
  • Food and Agriculture Industry
  • Foodspin Government Agencies
  • Food NGO's and Consumer groups 12)

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ActivistCash - AfricaBio - AgBioWorld - Alber & Geiger - Tim Ambler - American Council for Fitness and Nutrition - American Council on Science and Health - Klaus Ammann - Andreas Geiger -

B

Roger Beachy - Bell Pottinger Good Relations - Rick Berman - Bill Morgan - Biotechnology Industry Organization - Bivings Group - Brian Ellis - Hugh Burkitt - Burson-Marsteller - Burson-Marsteller UK Staff and Clients 1 June 2009 to 31 August 2009 -

C

Center for Food and Agricultural Research - Central Lobby Consultants - Chris Woodcock - Cohn and Wolfe Ltd - Council for Biotechnology Information - Counsel Public Relations -

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Phil Dale -

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Edelman -

F

Fallon Currie Consulting Fleishman-Hillard Foodspin organisation format Foresight Communications

G

L. Val Giddings Global Consulting Group GolinHarris

H

Hill and Knowlton Charlotte Hughes

I

Interbrand

L

LLM Communications Lexington Communications Lexis Public Relations Ltd Life Sciences Network Lobbying organisation format Lobbying person format Luther Pendragon

M

Robert May I. Henry Miller Vivian Moses

N

National Center for Food and Agriculture Policy Nigel Dickie

P

PG Economics Charles Henry Plumb Porter Novelli International Purely Nutrition

R

Rob Rees

S

Society of European Affairs Professionals Mary Jane Kehily Lydia Martens Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan

T

Dick Taverne The Whitehouse Consultancy Ltd, UK Staff and clients 1 June 2009 to 31 August 2009 Tina Ruggiero Anthony Trewavas

W

Weber Shandwick Worldwide Whitehouse Consultancy Ltd

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