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From seed to plate, our food system is broken.

Global food corporations threaten our environment, food sovereignty and health. We work to protect our children from the epidemic of diet-related disease, striving to create a more sustainable future by challenging the corporate abuse of our food system. Learn More

In the U.S., one in three children born in the year 2000 are predicted to develop type 2 diabetes in their lifetime.

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Tell McDonald's: We're Not Lovin' It

Moms are not lovin McDonalds marketing to kids

For decades, McDonald’s has profited richly at a staggering cost to our children’s health. Its strategy has been to undermine the efforts of parents (or as McDonald's calls them, “gatekeepers”) to feed kids healthfully. Now, parents around the world are saying “we're not lovin’ it” this Mother’s Day. Share this graphic with your networks. It will get the attention of McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson and other McDonald's executives.

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St. Pauls schoolchild- example of a school fighting fast-food influence

How Your City Can Push Back Against Fast Food

Michele Simon, JD, MPH
December 6, 2012
Challenge Corporate Abuse of Our Food
Last week, the National League of Cities, which represents over 19,000 cities, villages and towns, hosted its annual meeting in Boston, with one of its three aims to “strengthen neighborhoods and families.” What better way to accomplish that goal than to challenge fast food’s influence in their communities?

Kansas City’s Truman Medical Center ends contract with McDonald’s: Decision follows public call for hospitals to break from burger giant

November 14, 2012
Challenge Corporate Abuse of Our Food
Months after Corporate Accountability International and a network of more than 3000 health professionals petitioned hospital administrators nationwide to remove McDonald’s franchises from their premises, Truman Medical Center has ended its contract with the burger giant, citing an increasing focus on health and wellness.
Value [the] Meal petitioning

Value [the] Meal wins BENNY Award

Corporate Accountability International
November 13, 2012
Challenge Corporate Abuse of Our Food
Tonight in Washington D.C., the Business Ethics Network (BEN) will honor Corporate Accountability International’s Value [the] Meal campaign. Deputy Director Patti Lynn and Campaign Director Sara Deon will accept the prestigious BENNY Award, which honors the victories and achievements of corporate campaign activists.

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Eric Mar

"[The San Francisco Healthy Meals Incentive Ordinance] is a tremendous victory for our children’s health – one that would not have been possible without Corporate Accountability International’s inspired grassroots mobilization."

Eric Mar, San Francisco Board of Supervisors

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