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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: This week the World Bank-based investor arbitration court, International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes, awarded $105 million to French media conglomerate Vivendi and its subsidiary, Compania de Aguas Del Aconquija, in a decade-long dispute over a water utility contract in Tucuman, Argentina.

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 introduction of a new bill, the Clean Renewable Water Supply Bond Act of 2007, is an opportunity to provide stronger environmental and consumer safeguards.

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: Last week, the largest private water corporation in the United States, American Water, announced it has received the green light from state regulators to spin off from its parent company, Germany-based utility giant RWE. But transferring ownership from Germany to New Jersey doesn’t mean change is on the way. Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter.

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.

Press Release: Today, Food & Water Watch has released a first-ever national map charting the distribution of factory farms to assist organizations and individuals in their efforts to shut down polluting operations and prevent the construction of new ones.

Press Release: On July 17, the City Council of Stockton, CA, voted unanimously to end the controversial privatization of the city‚ water and sewer systems, and restore them both to public control. Statement of Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter.