In the news...
- Introducing...Food and Water Watch!
Your Water for All Team is pleased to announce that, along with Public Citizen's
food team, we are launching a brand new organization: Food and Water Watch.
This means an increased capacity to work with you, and activists and organizations
like you, to continue growing the international movement for Water Democracy.
Food and water are the essence of life; Food and Water Watch is dedicated
to protecting these precious resources from dangerous corporate control and
privatization.
Sincerely,
Your Water for All Team
Maj, Sara, Wenonah and Victoria
Food and Water Watch
1616 P St. NW & 1400 16th St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20036
202-797-6550
Questions? Comments? Contact Victoria at or 202-797-6556
www.foodandwaterwatch.org
- ORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION’S UPDATE ON THE "SNEAK ATTACK" ON ORGANIC
STANDARDS
Thanks to everyone who contacted Congress to try to stop the industry and
Organic Trade Association (OTA)rider to weaken organic standards. Together,
OCA and our allies generated over 320,000 letters to Congress. Despite
a closed-door Conference Committee meeting of House and Senate Republicans
that rammed the rider through in late-October, the OCA is optimistic about
the future of organics. They are currently working with their allies
in the organic community to try to reduce or eliminate the damage to organic
integrity created by this rider. Once the balance of power in Congress
changes, it may be possible to pass an "Organic
Restoration Act" that can strengthen, rather than weaken, organic standards.
In the meantime, OCA recommends that you buy more and more non-processed
organic foods, especially local, and regionally produced organic foods and
look for the "100% organic" label on organic processed foods. Please
consider supporting our SOS/Safeguard Organic Standards campaign by donating
here: www.organicconsumers.org/donations.htm.
Also, listen to the online and satellite radio show "Beyond Organic" this
week to hear OCA Director Ronnie Cummins debate with OTA Director Katherine
DiMatteo on this issue - www.beyondorganic.com
Senator Harkin (D-IA) speaking on the Senate floor about the passage of the
"Sneak Attack" rider weakening organic standards (Nov. 2, 2005):
"Again, behind closed doors and without a single debate, the Organic Foods
Production Act was amended at the behest of large food processors without
the benefit of the organic community reaching a compromise. To rush provisions
into the law that have not been properly vetted, that fail to close loopholes,
and that do not reflect a consensus, only undermines the integrity of the
National Organic Program."
- Moratorium on drinking water fluoridation programs
August 19, 2005- Eleven Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employee
unions representing over 7,000 Civil Service environmental and public health
professionals have called for a moratorium on drinking water fluoridation programs across the country. Citing "startling and
disturbing new information that confirms the worst fears expressed in the
earlier testimony. You can review their concerns and arguments in the press
release, "EPA Unions Call for Nationwide Moratorium on Fluoridation
EPA Headquarters Union, August 19, 2005," available at
http://nteu280.org/Issues/Fluoride/Press%20Release.%20Fluoride.htm
- Survey: Boost Rules on Biotech Foods, November
29, 2004, Sacramento Bee article about a recent survey of consumer attitudes
toward Genetically Engineered Crops & Foods.
- Biotech grass found far afield, Sept. 21, 2004. One of several updates to the Seeds of Doubt series.
- Genes From Engineered Grass Spread for Miles, Study Finds, Sept. 21 2004. New York Times article on the same study.
- Seeds of Doubt Excellent series of articles about Genetically Engineered crops around the world published in the Sacramento Bee June 6 - June 10, 2004.
- LA Times, Jun 20. 2004, PDBE exposure unavoidable.
- Huron County Federation of Agriculture, Date Unknown, Pesticides too harmful to use in any form, doctors warn.
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