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Trade Negotiations Cannot Solve Food Crisis Created by WTO and World Bank

July 24, 2008

Press Release: Despite assertions by global trade ministers, this week’s World Trade Organization negotiations in Geneva will not solve the current global food crisis, according to a new report released today by U.S.-based consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch.

The People: 1; Nestle: 1: Activists Save Water From Corporate Control in Wells, Maine as Neighbors in Rangeley Lose Out To Extraction Site

July 18, 2008

Water activists seized a decisive victory yesterday when trustees of the Kennebunk-Kennebunkport-Wells Water District voted to indefinitely table action on a thirty year agreement with Nestle to allow the company to extract local water for Poland Springs water in Wells, Maine. Nestle announced its plan to forge a contract with the water district last month to take between 250,000 to 500,000 gallons of water a day from the town’s fragile ecosystem. Food & Water Watch allied with Defending Water in Maine and other local organizations to protest the contract and Nestle’s presence in Maine.

FDA Spends Too Much on Employee Parties, Not Enough on Food Safety

July 15, 2008

Press Release: Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director: In a time of increasing concern over the safety of our food supply, it is disconcerting to hear of frivolous spending from a federal agency that is charged with protecting consumers’ safety. Yet unfortunately this is the case with the Food and Drug Administration.

Salmonella Contamination – Is Irradiation the Solution?

June 13, 2008

Executive director of Food & Water Watch and author of the new book Zapped! Irradiation and the Death of Food, Hauter said today: "As stores and restaurants around the country pull tomatoes from shelves and menus in response to the recent salmonella outbreak, American tomato farmers are poised to lose their livelihoods and the food irradiation industry sees dollar signs.

Book Signing Event: Groundbreaking Food Irradiation Book

June 5, 2008

Author Wenonah Hauter, of the new book Zapped! Irradiation and the Death of Food, will be reading from and signing her book at Busboys & Poets in Washington, DC.

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