sounds harmless enough but a recent report suggests the elfie is home to a very powerful lobbying group working on behalf of the u.s. food industry the institute claims to promote science for the public good and to be transparent and denies it functions as a lobby group but 3 of us one of the people featured in the exposé begs to differ if you look at the conflict of interest statement for example for arab i buy in see our stories birth of directors it makes it very clear that if the interests are to see must come number one at the interest of any other body will come secondary to that this is a huge problem because this organization has been able to infiltrate if you may different government agencies particularly one government agency that decides on rules and regulations on food safety and standards a these people who sit on the board of directors of elsie. also sitting on these committees of government agencies that are supposed to do good safety. standards and regulations there should be a split between their representatives who. will see and people who are actually working with the

democrats according to this research a group called arabella advisors elfie has been in the vanguard of the leftist money hoes they shelter under their umbrella for nonprofit organizations by their nature they do not have to disclose who they're getting their money from but this research suggests that they've gathered a huge number of very wealthy donors some of the nation's largest grant making institutions including the rockefeller packard and koch foundations the donors to the funds managed by arabella it remains unclear why such large and powerful institutions seek outside philanthropic consulting but presumably a significant part of our bill is appeal lies in its ability to obscure large financial transactions these for nonprofits have been showering and to conservative grassroots organizations with their money take this $1.00 with a name so noble it's cloying our goal is to oppose an interim short list yes they get their pockets stuffed by 1633rd an offshoot of our bell advisors another group save my care has been pushing against republican attempts to repeal obamacare the pres

sounds harmless enough but a new study suggests the elfie is home to a very powerful lobbying group working on behalf of the. the u.s. food industry the institute claims to promote science for the public good and to be transparent and denies it functions as a lobbying group but the study just mentioned banks to defy claiming for example that the nutritional advice is not for the benefit of consumers the institute offshoot in china is said to have influenced the government anti obesity program resulting in guidelines that downplay the role of diet in india the reportedly obstructed government efforts to flag a potentially unhealthy foods a few decades ago it also championed the tobacco industry's interests in europe and america while more recently it supported claims that a widely used weed killer does not cause cancer the institute's website boasts that it's an engineer working to provide health and the environment it doesn't mention whose it stone is are reportedly these include of coca-cola pepsi co and mcdonald's has had the study is seeking to expose the earthy describes its activities.

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