Industrial agriculture is increasingly adopting the same public relations, lobbying and information tactics long used by Big Oil, investigative journalist Amy Westervelt said on the "Real Organic Podcast." Those strategies help corporations influence research, media and policy, making it easier to "shape the information that voters are getting," she said.

(Children's Health Defense) Journalist Amy Westervelt has spent years documenting how the oil industry used public relations, think tanks and university partnerships to shape public opinion and influence public policy.

But in a recent interview on the "Real Organic Podcast," Westervelt said she increasingly sees many of those same tactics in industrial agriculture.

"I am finding so many parallels in the agriculture space," said Westervelt, host of the investigative podcast "Drilled" and author of the forthcoming book, "Brought to You By: Inside Big Oil's Total Information War."