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Unlike artificial sweeteners, Senomyx's chemical compounds will not be listed separately on ingredient labels. Instead, they will be lumped into a broad category - "artificial flavors" - already found on most packaged food labels. Read More

In 1990, McDonald's Corporation sued two members of London Greenpeacefor "libeling" the company. Why? They were handing out "What's WrongWith McDonald's? Everything They Don't Want You to Know" leaflets. Theleaflet exposed the corporation's disreputable business practices,including the exploitation of our children through advertising, itsanti-union agenda, and its promotion of an unhealthy diet.McDonald's Corporation hired expensive, high-powered lawyers to quashthe McLibel 2 in court. David Read More

Nonprofit's Tactics, Funding Sources Spark Controversy Read More

In the last two years, at least two dozen leading nutrition scientists and experts have started working for large food companies, either as consultants or as members of health advisory boards. Most do not directly promote products, though Dr. Arthur Agatston, a practicing cardiologist and author of "The South Beach Diet," has a licensing deal with Kraft Foods to sell a line of South Beach foods, which are appearing on supermarket shelves this month. Read More

SAN FRANCISCO and NEW YORK -- CorpWatch has learned that after a year long campaign by environmentalists, human rights groups, labor unions and other non-governmental organizations a leading UN agency abandoned its perilous partnership with a group of transnational corporations whose tarnished human rights, environmental and development records threatened to rub off on the world body. Read More

In Immokalee, Florida, the situation is dire. South Florida is the nation's leading producer of fresh tomatoes. Taco Bell is a major purchaser of Florida tomatoes. Their enormous purchasing power gives them a unique opportunity to intervene on behalf of farm workers who subsidize corporate profits with sweatshop tomatoes. Read More