Confectioners.com went into the Open Secrets database to take a look at how candy companies spent their campaign contributions.
Mondelez, which owns these brands of chocolates: Milka, Toblerone, Caramilk, Cadbury:
Hershey’s:
Open Secrets is at https://www.opensecrets.org/. It’s worth learning how to use it so you can dig up sweet tidbits like these.
I am honored (hugely) to be the recipient of the 2023 Edinburgh Medal, at which I give a speech as part of the Edinburgh Science Festival. My talk, “Food Politics: Why it Matters Now” is at 7:00 p.m. Information about the Science Festival is here. A Tweet announcing my award is here.