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Clean water is the most valuable resource on earth, allowing for-profit-companies to take it for next to nothing must end. When the asset is properly valued, many of the current business uses will be uneconomical and cease, and that is necessary.  Individual communities must tune in to this issue.

A Michigan township has temporarily blocked Nestlé’s attempt to pump millions of litres of groundwater for bottled water — the latest in a trend of municipalities engaged in legal battles with the world’s largest food and beverage company.

Nestlé is seeking to build a pipeline booster pumping station near Evart, Mich., in an effort to supply more water to its plant in Standwood, more than 50 kilometres away.  Here is a direct video link.

Individuals caring about the food we consume is the launching point for thoughtful habits.

Mark Bittman is the author of 20 acclaimed books, including the How to Cook Everything series, the award-winning Food Matters, and The New York Times number-one bestseller, VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00. For more than two decades his popular and compelling stories appeared in the Times, where he was ultimately the lead food writer for the Sunday Magazine and became the country’s first food-focused Op-Ed columnist for a major news publication. Bittman has starred in four television series, including Showtime’s Emmy-winning Years of Living Dangerously.  Throughout his career Bittman has strived for the same goal: to make food, in all its aspects, understandable.

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Vegan bakers discovered chickpea juice acts like an egg white, putting meringues back on the menu.  Here is a direct video link.