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Food industry messaging pulled from Big Tobacco playbook

by: Pamela Mejia
posted on Friday, April 18, 2014

A new study from BMSG explores the tobacco industry’s use of personal choice messaging to shift blame for its products’ health harms onto consumers. Now Big Food is taking a page from tobacco’s well-worn playbook. How similar are the two industries and what does this mean for advocates?

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Hang in there, advocates: Change takes time

by: Fernando Quintero
posted on Thursday, September 13, 2012

In the fight for public health and social change, advocacy groups must often work for decades before seeing real change. But, as a recent victory for environmental health advocates shows, the struggle is well worth it. And media advocacy can play an important role in getting there.

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What is PepsiCo buying with donations to communities of color?

by: Fernando Quintero
posted on Monday, August 20, 2012

The National Association of Hispanic Journalists is one of several prominent Latino organizations that has recently accepted large sums of money from PepsiCo. In doing so, such groups gain much-needed funds for scholarships and internships but may risk losing something even bigger.

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Paula Deen and the politics of personal responsibility

by: Andrew Cheyne
posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Following Food Network star Paula Deen’s announcment that she has Type-2 diabetes, fans have rallied behind her in support. But the arguments that they — and Deen herself — are using to defend her promotion of high-calorie foods are eerily similar to the industry rhetoric used to defend another Southern product: tobacco.

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