http://foodandwaterwatch.org daily 1 2007-04-04T16:15:50Z http://foodandwaterwatch.org/issue-2-passes-agribusiness-rewrites-ohios-constitution20091104 Statement: The Farm Bureau-sponsored campaign to change Ohio’s constitution and give industrialized agriculture control over livestock issues succeeded with the passage of ballot Issue 2. Consumers, small family farmers and the neighbors of large, industrialized animal operations are the losers. No publisher RichB agricultural policy 2009-11-04T14:43:39Z Press Release http://foodandwaterwatch.org/press/releases/milwaukee-water-system-lease-could-cost-community-millions-per-year20091104 Press Release: Leasing the Milwaukee Water Works to a private company for 99 years could cost the Milwaukee community a total of $17 million to $31 million a year, finds a new report released today by the national consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch. Entitled Mortgaging Milwaukee’s Future: Why Leasing the Water System is a Bad Deal for Consumers, the report reveals that for every dollar the city receives from an endowment from the lease of the Water Works, consumers could have to pay as much as $5.40 in water bills. No publisher kfried Milwaukee privatization 2009-11-04T15:12:34Z Press Release http://foodandwaterwatch.org/press/releases/issue-2-pac-tries-to-distract-ohio-voters-by-stifling-ads-20091102 Press Statement: As the campaign over Issue 2, a proposal to create the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board, comes down to the wire, the livestock industry is trying one last trick to squelch the debate. Recently, Food & Water Watch placed radio ads throughout Ohio to warn Ohio voters that Issue 2 would create a board that is dominated by factory farms. The Ohioans for Livestock Care PAC pressured the media to pull our message off the air by contacting Clear Channel Communications, Inc., owner of the radio stations currently set to run our ads. Now, they have filed a complaint with the Ohio Elections Commission alleging that the ads contain "false statements" about how Issue 2 would put the livestock industry in charge of writing its own rules, and that factory farms put the public at risk for diseases like E. coli and swine flu. No publisher RichB ohio issue 2 livestock 2009-11-02T21:30:49Z Press Release http://foodandwaterwatch.org/zapped/tomato-recall-2013-is-irradiation-the-solution 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. No publisher press irradiation food irradiation salmonella outbreak Zapped Wenonah Hauter food poisoning tomatoes 2008-07-11T14:47:22Z News Item http://foodandwaterwatch.org/zapped/book-signing-event-groundbreaking-food-irradiation-book 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. No publisher press 2008-05-28T16:29:56Z Event