Table 4.

Key corporate political activities

• Information and messaging: e.g., lobbying, reframing the debate, stress economic importance of the industry • Financial incentives: e.g., funding political parties • Constituency building: e.g., Establishing relationships with key leaders, policy-makers and organizations and media, seek involvement in the community • Legal strategies: Use (or threat) legal action against policies or opponents, influence development of trade and investment agreements • Policy substitution: voluntarily reformulate some foods (least consumed), promote healthy diets • Opposition fragmentation and destabilisation: creating disconcerting thoughts by those opposing the issue Industry may utilise one, some or all of these strategies to thwart policy action.

Source: Mialon [23]