-- In the UK, "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."
Read : http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/nov/12/mcdonalds-pepsico-help-health-policy.
Some people are scandalised and compare this to putting the tabacco industry in charge of smoking policies. But I think it is a realistic move : multinationals run the world, whether local governments like that or not. So why should we pretend they are not ?
-- In thus US "The highest-ranking House official in charge of environmental and energy policy may soon be a Republican legislator who denies climate change on the grounds of his belief that nothing bad can come of the Earth unless it is preordained by God."
Read : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/13/john-shimkus-climate-change_n_782664.html.
Stop the world, I want to get off !
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