Conscious of their image – which is rather bad – , multinationals wish to look responsible. Using considerable resources, they fund lobbies and seek to influence scientists to create conditions for continuing their quest for ever more spectacular profits.
More articles on multinationales and their efforts to increase their influence published on hunger explained.org
February 2023 – Science, what science ? A problem or part of the solution? (When the industry doctors science for profit) – In the 16th century, Rabelais was already warning us that “Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition” and we may add to it now, without hesitation, “and that of the world”…. [read]
15 December 2022 – Pollinators are declining rapidly – Rather than protecting them, some are getting mobilized (and invest) for replacing them! Why bother about organizing the transition towards sustainable food systems, when it is possible to make profits by selling technological “solutions” to “solve” the issue of pollinators? [read]
16 May 2019 – Scientific research under the influence of private interests (Season 2) : sugar and physical exercise – Coca-Cola waters scientists with millions of dollars to convince consumers throughout the world that with more physical exercice, they may continue absorbing large quantities of sugar drinks without bearing any health consequences. [read]
November 2018 – Privatisation of development assistance: integrating further agriculture into the world marketThe growing role left by governments to the privage sector transforms modalities of agricultural development in poor countries to the detriment of the mass of farmers who are, to a large extent, excluded. [read]
6 February 2017 – The World Economic Forum’s “New Vision for Agriculture” is moving ahead on the ground… Make large multinationals the masters of the food and agriculture sector, by funding them in part by rich countries’ taxpayers and to the detriment of hundreds of millions of small family farmers… [read]
19 August 2015 – The large multinational corporations in charge of our agri-food system : how they try to earn themselves an ethical, pro-development image. An aggressive communication conducted through some associations seeks to create confusion on the real objectives of multinationals [read]
8 March 2014 – The large corporations multinational corporations in charge of our agri-food system…: upstream corporations – In 2010, multinational corporations weighed more than 25% of world GDP. For agricultural inputs, a handful of companies control the market and promote products which often have an exorbitant environmental and health cost. [read]
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