Press Releases: Food

Press Release: Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter: Today we commend the majority of Congressional Democrats who stood with the farmers, workers, and consumers in their districts and voted against the flawed Peru trade deal, despite its final passage.

Press Release: Four consumer groups are protesting not being given the opportunity to testify at an October 30, 2007 House Agriculture Committee hearing on a questionable food technology that is deceptive to consumers.

Press Release – Food & Water Watch joined the National Farmers Union, along with Consumer Federation of America, National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, American Federation of Government Employees, Center for Science in the Public Interest, National Consumers League, Center for Foodborne Illness Research and Prevention, Government Accountability Project, and United Food and Commercial Workers, to announce an agreement on the interstate shipment of meat and poultry products.

Press Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that older Canadian cattle will be allowed into the United States as of November 19, showing once again that the USDA is more concerned about facilitating trade than protecting public health.

Press Release: Retail prices for meat and milk are disconnected from increases in the price that farmers receive for corn, according to an analysis of food and corn prices over the past three decades released today.

Press Release: Coalition pressed the Senate Agriculture Committee to include measures to improve the livestock marketplace in the 2007 Farm Bill when it is considered in committee later this month. These reforms will potentially improve contract fairness, eliminate the worst contract abuses for livestock producers, and restore balance to the livestock marketplace can benefit farmers, ranchers, consumers, and rural communities.

Press Release: Today Starbucks Coffee Company committed to make 100% of the chain‚ milk supply free of artificial growth hormones (rBGH) by December 31, 2007.

Press Release: Last week, Tyson Foods, Inc., the nation‚ largest red meat producer, quietly informed the House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce that it will phase out the practice of enhancing meat coloring by treatment with carbon monoxide.

Press Release: The FY 2008 Agriculture-FDA Appropriations Bill, that was recently approved by the House of Representatives, includes several important measures on food safety and consumers right-to-know about how their food is produced.

Press Release: Consumers think it is deceptive and several supermarket stores have taken it off the shelves, yet the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has failed to withdraw approval for carbon monoxide-treated meat.