Report Looks at Soda Firms’ Role in Failed Tax Measures
The multibillion-dollar soda industry's investments on targeted philanthropy and paid strategic partnerships with ethnic groups and health organizations played a key role in the failures of ballot measures to raise taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages, such as those in El Monte and Richmond last year, according to a report by the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
- "Report Highlights Influence of Soda Industry in Beating Back Anti-Obesity Measures in Richmond, Elsewhere" (Rogers, Contra Costa Times, 3/26).