How can food system movements unite? Through a shared theory of what causes food system problems from pesticide use to chronic disease, from hunger to PFAS in food packaging: www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/connecting...

Connecting the Corporate Dots Across Food System Fights (and Beyond)

We’ll never solve food systems issues without a collective theory of cause that centers commercial activity. Uniting food movements starts with connecting the corporate dots across food system problem...

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Telling smokers to quit already does not help smokers quit! Want to know what does? Read www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/telling-sm...

Why Telling Smokers to Quit Didn’t Work – and What Actually Did

Reduction in Cigarette Smoking in the U.S. is One of the Biggest Public Health Success Stories in Our Lifetime

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We tend to excuse marketing as a necessary evil. But it can be necessary without being evil. Read our latest piece: When Marketing Kills tinyurl.com/e3ttbvy9

When a healthcare provider recommended I try magnesium for sleep and headaches, she released me into a commercially determined world of unverifiable claims, missing information, and 290,000+choices overload www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/unregulate...

Magnesium Madness

The Wild Wild West of Dietary Supplements

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Harmful industries work overtime to ensure policies keep them under regulated and over subsidized. We have some suggestions for what non-profits and other organizations can do about it: Claim Political Power! www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/claimingpo...

Claiming Your Policy Power

5 Ways to Redress Harmful Industries' Corporate Political Activity

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Each year, over $6 TRILLION flows to food, road, and fossil fuel industries whose products are associated with more than 5.5 MILLION preventable deaths... How does industry manage to stay unregulated AND on top of the list for government handouts? Read the full article: tinyurl.com/ypzn8f84

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Scientists finally figured out how corporate executives sleep at night: On giant bags of money.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Researchers have long established that corporations are masters of political spin. Frequently, though, the claims prove to be deliberate lies that cause real harm. This phenomenon ...

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Instacart’s food access research and policy work sounds laudable but the platform and its partners fail to say what’s in it for the company. It turns out that Instacart has a lot to gain. www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/no-conflic...

Corporate Claims of “No Conflicts of Interest” - The Case of Instacart

Instacart employees claim no conflicts of interest with the online food access research the company supports. We disagree. Here is why.

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Social media is on trial for harms in the U.S. and it’s already using claims from the corporate narrative playbook: www.linkedin.com/posts/commer...

What Corporations Say to Get Their Policy Way | Commercially Determined

SOCIAL MEDIA IS ON TRIAL FOR HARMS AND IT'S USING THE COMMERCIAL NARRATIVE PLAYBOOK Last week, Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, testified in a Los Angeles trial in a California lawsuit brought by...

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Regulating commercial determinants of health: there's the conceptual umbrella we're looking for.

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"I don't see any reason why we can't do what we did with opiates... with tobacco. We need to regulate Big Tech," @profgalloway.com tells @timmiller.bsky.social. "All the problems you're talking about are fixable, and the illusion of complexity is what Big Tech wants you to be overrun with."

How do you get ahead of corporate misinformation in the policy space? You Steal Corporate Thunder! Check out our guide to prebunking and debunking industry disinformation to advance pro-public-interest policy debates… www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/stealing-c...

Stealing Corporate Thunder

A Guide to Prebunking and Debunking Commercial Disinformation in the Policy Space

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This week, we dive into the narratives that corporations use to deflect responsibility of harm and convince policy makers not to regulate industry. See the rest of the memes: tinyurl.com/4r52znhc And check out the full deep dive: tinyurl.com/ycy7dc4p @dryuchu.bsky.social @abbie-c.bsky.social

Our latest piece in Commercially Determined breaks down 10 common tropes used by industry to sway policy. www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/narrative-.... Curious which you hear most in your policy space.

What Corporations Say to Get Their Policy Way

Industries' Narrative Playbook to Fight Regulations

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United Nations passes Do No Harm business law. Half the global economy shuts down.

In an unprecedented global move last month, the United Nations passed a law requiring all businesses to take on the medical field’s creed of: Do No Harm. This month, half the global economy shut down,...

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Multiple industries have been linked to Parkinson’s Disease. It’s just one way that harmful commercial determinants are all around us, everywhere, all at once. www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/everyone-h...

Everyone Has Parkinson’s Now (and What Industry Has To Do With It)

(and What Industry Has to Do With It)

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We dedicate the second Tuesday of each month to reimagining what's possible. This week's piece explains why practitioners should integrate a commercial determinants lens into their work. www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/root-solutions-not-bandaids @dryuchu.bsky.social @abbie-c.bsky.social

Fighting Back Against Commercial Harms

A look at how applying a commercial determinants lens unlocks systemic solutions and that you’re not powerless against powerful root causes.

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🎉 It’s here: the first edition of Commercially Determined. The opening issue introduces a predictable corporate playbook—10 tactics repeated across industries and geographies. Check it out and subscribe. www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/commercial... @abbie-c.bsky.social @dryuchu.bsky.social

Intro to Commercial Determinants: Confronting Business Harms

An Introduction to Commercial Determinants

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We leaned on great work by @dharna.bsky.social, @fastlerner.bsky.social, @markpetticrew.bsky.social and others to launch. Appreciate what you do. www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/commercial... Commercially Determined will drop weekly on Tuesdays. Stay tuned!

Intro to Commercial Determinants: Confronting Business Harms

An Introduction to Commercial Determinants

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Try this AI prompt to make you a little safer from AI's commercially determinant hallucinations, delusions, and harms: ✍ "I know you're programmed to flatter & affirm. I don't need that. I need accurate, balanced, non-inflated answers. In all your interactions with me stay accurate and detached."