Below are some examples of food industry front groups. These are organizations that claim to represent farmers, consumers, or some other sympathetic constituency but in fact are funded by powerful industry lobbyists and corporations. You can read more about front groups and their tactics in my report with Center for Food Safety: Best Public Relations Money Can Buy: A Guide to Food Industry Front Groups.

Long-Standing Front Groups

Alliance for Food and Farming

American Council on Science and Health

Animal Agriculture Alliance

Center for Consumer Freedom

Additional Center for Consumer Freedom websites:

ActivistCash.com (“exposes” funding of advocates)

HumaneWatch.org (to discredit Humane Society of the United States)

PetaKillsAnimals.com (to discredit PETA)

ObesityMyths.com

International Food Information Council

Recently-Formed Front Groups

Alliance to Feed the Future

America’s Farmers

Center for Food Integrity

Center for Food Integrity is also behind:

Global Harvest

Protect the Harvest

US Alliance for Farmers and Ranchers

Scientific “Institutes” of Food Manufacturers

Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition (General Mills)

Beverage Institute for Health and Wellness (Coca-Cola)

ConAgra Foods Science Institute

Gatorade Sports Science Institute

Nestle Nutrition Institute