As I had suspected, the article from the NY Times that Discredited Meat Guideline, was influenced by Food Industry Ties!

The article stated that the warnings linking meat consumption to heart disease and cancer were not backed by strong scientific evidence. Dr. Johnston, the lead scientist in the study was also the senior author on a similar study that tried to discredit international health guidelines advising people to eat less sugar. That study, which also appeared in the Annals of Internal Medicine, was paid for by the International Life Sciences Institute, or ILSI, which is the organization I wrote about a few weeks ago that is largely supported by agribusiness, food and pharmaceutical companies and whose members have included McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Cargill, one of the largest beef processors in North America.

We need to always question studies, and know who paid for them. They are most often influenced by money, power, and greed.

The Grocery Manufacturer’s Association has Always Been Influenced by $$$$$$$!

The Grocery Manufacturer’s Association of America (GMA) has been a huge supporter and promoter of junk food and GMO’s, with an anti-transparency agenda. Their members are major processed food giants like Coke and General Mills, as well as biotech and GMO seed companies like Monsanto.  As a lobbying group, the GMA has probably done more to harm the health of our nation than any other organization.

As of 2020, they will be re-branding themselves as the Consumer Brands Association (CBA), supposedly with a new mission. Their new mission will no longer be an aggressive, anti-transparency, consumer-be-damned attitude that characterized the GMA, but a mission to advocate for uniform regulation including recycling rules, improving packaging sustainability, building trust in consumer packaged goods, and improving supply chains.

All I can say is that they will have to prove themselves worthy of my trust after the years of mis-representation they were famous for!