Subject · AGR
Food and Agriculture
How the food supply is defined, subsidized and regulated, and how the companies that profit from it shape the rules that govern it.
- 01
Defining Food
How the 1958 additives law and the GRAS exemption let companies decide for themselves what is safe to add to food.
- 02
The Sugar Papers
What the sugar and beverage industries paid for, and what their internal documents show about how nutrition research was shaped.
- 03
The Subsidy Map
Who receives federal farm payments and crop-insurance subsidies, from USDA data.
- 04
The Guidelines
How dietary guidelines are written, who sits on the committee, and what changed between drafts.
- 05
Concentration
Market shares in meatpacking and seed, the antitrust record, and what the courts and agencies found.
Mechanisms documented in this report
Oversight paid for by the overseen
6 findingsLobbying and purchased policy
6 findingsThe study not run
2 findingsThe filtered record
3 findingsManaging the narrative
2 findings
Further reading
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (revised and expanded tenth anniversary edition; first edition 2002)
22 claims checked:4 supported · 15 partly supported · 3 contradicted · 0 not in the record