From: The Weekly Spin
June 16, 2004

UNSPINNING THE WEB OF CORPORATE INFLUENCE

When it comes to stealthy PR campaigns, the biotech industry has spared no expense. For the past six years, the UK-based public
interest group GM Watch has been tracking and documenting biotech's dirty tricks, learning that the PR web reaches further than just GM food. Encompassing a broad range of front groups, industry-funded researchers, and internet campaigns, GM Watch's new website LobbyWatch provides a who's-who of PR operators in Europe and the rest of the world. LobbyWatch's groundbreaking research details how the Living Marxism network is bringing a "Wise Use"-type environmentalism (read: industry friendly) to Europe, how the European Science and Environment Forum was founded with money from tobacco giant Philip Morris, and many other stories.