http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org daily 1 2007-04-04T16:15:50Z http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/ohio-elections-commission-pursues-frivolous-case-against-consumer-group20091105 Statement: Today, the Ohio Elections Commission acted to deny Food & Water Watch’s constitutional right of free speech to discuss the connection between confined animal feeding operations (CAFO) and swine flu. The Commission’s panel decided to allow the Ohioans for Livestock Care (OLC) PAC, a front group for the industrialized livestock industry, to pursue it’s claim that radio ads about Issue 2 may have contained a false statement. No publisher RichB factory farms food security livestock Food, Inc. Farm Bill farms issue 2 Livestock Care Standards Board ohio farming 2009-11-05T19:45:49Z Press Release http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/press/releases/proposed-carlsbad-desalination-project-to-cost-up-to-three-times-more-than-claimed20091105 Press Release: Water produced at Poseidon Resources proposed desalination facility in Carlsbad, Calif. could cost up to three times more than previously claimed by the company, according to an independent expert analysis released today by Food & Water Watch, a consumer advocacy group. This finding comes as the Metropolitan Water District is poised to decide whether to grant Poseidon $350 million in subsidies for their proposed $534 million, 50 MGD desalination facility in Carlsbad. No publisher kfried desalination Carlsbad 2009-11-05T21:09:47Z Press Release http://www.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://www.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://www.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