Food Politics

Sadly, they will rebut it by spending 300x more money then the governments on advertising/lobbying a completely different thing and try and change the subject….

Just a guess…

Interesting. I always thought the tap water in Europe was mostly undrinkable. Is it perhaps different in the UK? or am I just misinformed?

If I can’t drink bottled water because it isn’t green and I can’t drink tap water because it’s contaminated with drugs and tastes of chlorine, what am I left with? Coke?

Karen: I’m afraid you are misinformed… I’m French and I have had tap water in almost all EU countries. It’s fine.
We also have electricity and shower daily

But there are drugs in my tap water:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/10/pharma.water1.ap/index.html

So if they’re going to get miffed at Nestle, they’re really going to have get a little more Brita action going for tap water. Of course, Lord knows what drugs may be in bottled water, they haven’t tested it, so yeah, I’m guessing I’m stuck with Snapple.

Robin, you have a good point there. If not tap water or bottled water then what?
Since much of the bottled water, at least that sold in the US, is just purified tap water, you could just purchase a good filter and filter your tap water to remove chlorine and other chemicals that were either missed by the filtration plant or were picked up somewhere between exiting the plant and going into your glass.
It just takes a tremendous amount of energy to ship water from whatever far-off place it is bottled, to produce the bottles, and many of those bottles are not recycled. I think everyone wins when you re-use water bottles, cleaning them out and refilling them with filtered tap water.

Bottled Water may be the new Water Rights issue:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/11/AR2006061100797_pf.html

http://www.stopcorporateabusenow.org/campaign/nestle_no_more_sweetheart_deals