"The Bush Administration is putting the interests of the junk food industry ahead of the health of people - including children - on a global scale," said Gary Ruskin, executive director of Commercial Alert, a nonprofit organization that works to reduce the incidence of marketing-related diseases, such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, alcoholism and diseases incurred through smoking. "The Administration's arguments border on the ludicrous. Does anyone outside the Administration and the junk food industry truly doubt that the consumption and marketing of high-calorie junk food plays a role in obesity and other chronic diseases?" Anth
