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Created with Fabric.js 1.4.5 $ LOBBYING AGAINST: 1,081 federal lobbyists working for 443 clientsat a cost of $123.6 million. TOP FIVE FOOD COMPANIES BY LOBBYIST SPENDING TOP FIVE FOOD COMPANIES BY LOBBYIST SPENDING The food industry, including dairy, livestock, poultry and all food processing,spent about $40 million on lobbying the federal government last year, however they only represent about half of the agricultural business. The other half, smaller farms, don't have that the money to spend. $464,837 Hormel Food Corp. McDonald's Corporation $430,000 $360,000 $265,000 Cargill Inc. Smithfield Foods Tyson Foods Inc. $123,076 food safety menu labelingfood marketing rules (fourth quarter of 2011) (fourth quarter of 2011) Kingsolver, Barbara. Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It. New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2010. Print."Slicing Into Food Industry's $40 Million Lobbying Efforts." Food Safety News. Food Safety News. Web. 5 Dec. 2014. $134 billion 2014 revenue of beef processor Cargill Inc. $2,615 Average revenue of a small-scale farmer $ $ DAVID V. GOLIATH DAVID V. GOLIATH "Five-year Financial Summary." Cargill: Our Company. Cargill Inc. Web. 10 Dec. 2014. <http://www.cargill.com/company/financial/five-year/>.Flynn, Dan. "Slicing Into Food Industry's $40 Million Lobbying Efforts | Food Safety News." Food Safety News. Food Safety News, 3 Mar. 2012. Web. 10 Dec. 2014. <http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/03/slicing-into-the-food-industrys-40-million-worth-of-lobbying/#.VH9RHmTF_38>.Lappé, Anna. Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It. New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2010. 103. Print.Rodgers, Craig. "Who Are You Calling 'rich'? A Small Farmer Shares Some Hard Data." Eatocracy RSS. CNN, 27 July 2012. Web. 10 Dec. 2014. <http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2012/07/27/who-are-you-calling-rich-a-small-farmer-shares-some-hard-data/>. Works Cited WDM "Attempt[ing] to influence the U.N. framework convention on climate change" -Andrew Hoffman on food companies, Harvard Business Review
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