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While advocacy groups have long gathered evidence about to the ways the world’s largest food companies spend money influencing politics, back powerful trade groups, and fund research that makes it into mainstream discussions about food, just how much influence they really have in shaping food policy is notoriously hard to pinpoint, partially due to lax disclosure requirements on corporate spending. … According to Feed the Truth, a new organization aimed at addressing corporate control of the food system, this lack of transparency “means that corporations can sell us a family-, worker-, and environmentally friendly image even as they spend heavily to block policies that would improve public health, cut down on inequality and poverty, and help prevent the climate breakdown.”
Civil Eats
About
We use the power of truth and transparency to challenge the global food industry’s exploitation of our health, our planet and our political system.
Feed the Truth was conceived by Daniel Lubetzky—a philanthropist and entrepreneur perhaps best known for creating the snack company KIND—with the goal that Feed the Truth would “hold all of us in the food community accountable for what we say and claim” and counteract the food industry’s alarming sway over both policy and science.
As a now-former food industry executive, Daniel recognized that his involvement in Feed the Truth would raise concerns about conflicts of interest. So along with providing seed funding to get Feed the Truth started, Daniel pledged to limit his involvement with the organization to that of an individual donor. Read here for more on Daniel’s philanthropy and commitments to civic action.
Feed the Truth is a fully independent nonprofit organization, governed by a board of directors that together with the executive director and staff, determine the organization’s strategy, policy positions, and programming.
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