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Go Veggie to Fight Global Warming, says Expert

(Creative Commons photo via Flckr: by mckaysavage)

One of the world's leading climate change gurus urged people to become vegetarian today, to help beat global warming.

Nicholas Stern, the author of an influential 2006 review of climate change, said methane emissions from cows and pigs were putting "enormous pressure" on the world and people needed to think about what they ate.

Posted in climate change, Food/Water, global warming

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 10, 2009
10:33 AM

CONTACT: Food & Water Watch
Sarah Alexander, (937) 638-7388, salexander@fwwatch.org
Alex Beauchamp, (720) 436-4465, abeauchamp@fwwatch.org
Erica Schuetz, (202) 683-4903, eschuetz@fwwatch.org

 

Food & Water Watch Launches 'Healthy School Milk or Bust' Tour Across the Midwest

Consumer Group Will Promote New Report to Highlight Need for Hormone-Free Milk in Schools

WASHINGTON - July 10 - Today, Food & Water Watch, a national consumer advocacy group, kicked off its "Healthy School Milk or Bust" tour and hit the road to secure healthy milk for schoolchildren. Traveling in a cow-themed van from July 10th - July 20th, Food & Water Watch will be visiting county fairs, farmers' markets and senators' offices in six states to gear up for this year's re-authorization of the Child Nutrition Act - a bill that is designed to help meet the nutritional needs of children through the National School Lunch Program and other feeding programs.

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Food & Water Watch is a nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food. We challenge the corporate control and abuse of our food and water resources by empowering people to take action and by transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink.
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Posted in children, Food/Water

Pro Food: Slow Food With an Entrepreneurial Twist

With my recent introduction of the term “Pro Food” and a definition of its core principles, several readers have questioned how Pro Food differs from Slow Food. Rather than try to answer this question on my own, as I am only somewhat familiar with Slow Food, I am opening it up to others to help decide.

Pro Food is primarily focused on driving entrepreneurial interest in solving the complex food system challenges we face.

Posted in Food/Water

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 6, 2009
9:00 AM

CONTACT: Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy (IATP)
Ben Lilliston, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
612-870-3416
Karen Lyons , Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
651-662-1415

Report Finds Faith Organizations Building Community, Improving Health Through Healthy Foods

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - May 6 - Parishioners at Guardian Angels Catholic Church in Minnesota do more than donate food to a local food shelf—they actually grow it themselves. The project is one of many case studies highlighted in a new report by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and funded by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (Blue Cross) that demonstrate a growing nationwide movement within the faith community to put into practice the belief that healthy foods will help feed the body and soul.
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The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
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Posted in Food/Water, Health

100 Days Later, Nation Waits for FDA Overhaul

The FDA is so understaffed it inspects less than 1 percent of imported food.

The Food and Drug Administration may be the only federal agency that both political parties agree is in desperate need of an overhaul.

President Barack Obama is promising action, though progress has been slow in the first 100 days. His choice to head the FDA - Dr. Margaret Hamburg - still has not been confirmed by congress.

Assuming Hamburg is confirmed, she will head an agency whose own Science Board concluded more than two years ago "is at risk of failing to carry out its mandate, leaving our citizens at risk of grievous harm."

Posted in fda, Food/Water

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April 24, 2009
1:20 PM

CONTACT: Food & Water Watch
Julie Anderson, (202) 683-2500

Kansas Governor Sebelius Vetoes Milk Labeling Bill and Protects Consumers

Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter

WASHINGTON - April 24 - "Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius made a strong stand for consumers yesterday by vetoing a milk labeling bill that would have taken away consumers' right to know how their milk is produced. Had the governor not vetoed the bill, dairy farmers who do not use recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) would have had trouble labeling their milk as such.

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Food & Water Watch is a nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food. We challenge the corporate control and abuse of our food and water resources by empowering people to take action and by transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink.
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Posted in Food/Water

Is Local Food Better? Yes, But There's More

In 1993, a Swedish researcher calculated that the ingredients of a typical Swedish breakfast-apple, bread, butter, cheese, coffee, cream, orange juice, sugar-traveled a distance equal to the circumference of the Earth before reaching the Scandinavian table. In 2005, a researcher in Iowa found that the milk, sugar, and strawberries that go into a carton of strawberry yogurt collectively journeyed 2,211 miles (3,558 kilometers) just to get to the processing plant.

Posted in Food/Water, localism

In Praise of Peasants

"Our lives are dependent on the sacrifice of the Campesinos"- Cesar Chavez

Posted in agriculture, farming, Food/Water

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 9, 2009
2:16 PM

CONTACT: Consumers Union
John Bianchi, Goodman Media, 212-576-2700
Naomi Starkman, CU, 917-539-3924

29 Groups Urge Kansas Gov. Sebelius to Veto Bill on RBGH Milk Labeling

Citing Conerns for Food Safety, Consumers' Right to Know, and Freedom of Speech

State Legislature Backs Biotech Interests Despite Strong Opposition; Consumers in Kansas Could be Misled About the Safety of Their Milk

WASHINGTON - April 9 - Today a broad array of 29 farmers, consumer groups, businesses and other organizations sent a letter to Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, President Obama's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, urging her to veto HR 2121, a bill passed by the Kansas State Legislature last week which would require an additional disclaimer on labels for dairy products produced from cows not treated with recombinant bovine growth hormone (rbGH or rbST), a genetically engineered, artificial hormone that induces cows to produce more milk. The bill was sent yesterday to Governor Sebel

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Posted in Food/Water

Inflation and Speculation: Ingredients for the Next Food Crisis?

First Lady Michelle Obama was heartily cheered last week when she visited a food bank and then went home to break ground for an organic "victory garden" on the White House lawn. Mrs. Obama's high-profile activities are good news to anti-hunger groups and advocates of good, local, healthy food. This upbeat news contrasts starkly with the increasing probability of a return to the 2008 global food crisis.

Posted in food crisis, Food/Water
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