‘Absolutely..it’s akin to putting a fox on guard duty for the hen house. A wolf to guard the mountain sheep.
https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2017/02/alcohol-industry-failing-to-self-regulate-marketing/
The same for social media companies. Congress is introducing legislation because self-regulation isn’t working..it never will whatever area of business. If anyone doubts that the likes of the Food /Alcohol industry isn’t more concerned about it’s own profits then here are examples of why. The Gambling industry is just as bad... arguably worse.
Some supermarkets in the UK,to their credit have adopted the so-called red traffic light system of labelling re salt,sugars and fat content. Aldi-Lidl and Morrison’s still don’t use the system Tesco is the latest to do so. One day I heard that someone from the food industry was to be interviewed on a particular radio programme..can’t recall which one..but I asked them to question why food manufacturers label salt as sodium. My cynical reason was that it looked less than it was. The person I spoke to was unaware that to get the equivalent salt content you need to multiply the sodium content by 2.5. Quite a lot. Sodium content 1.5. Per 100gms Salt equivalent 3.75. Six is the recommended adult daily intake. The question was put by the interviewer and the person being interviewed clearly wasn’t happy it had been exposed .
Alcohol. Years ago I heard the head of European Traffic police..a high-ranking Dutch officer say that he couldn’t understand why a country..the UK..wouldn’t want to protect its citizens. This was in relation to the higher drink-drive alcohol limit we had.80 to their 50. Well, the reason was the Food/Drink industry’s lobbyists. I actually heard someone say that reducing the limit would be very bad for rural pubs where you had to drive to get there. The government will not reduce it from 80mgm in 100 mgs blood or 35ml in 100mls breath On the spurious grounds that it’s a ‘small minority’ of drivers who go excessively over that limit. Described as a ‘hard core’ .I think the limit in most European countries is 50..Sweden ban it .I’d need to do a bit of Googling .
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44533752