Comments on: New Documentary “Tapped” Makes Bottled Water Look All Wet http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/12/03/new-documentary-%e2%80%9ctapped%e2%80%9d-makes-bottled-water-look-all-wet/ Welcome to Eat Drink Better: Sustainable Food for a Healthy Lifestyle Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:41:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kray http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/12/03/new-documentary-%e2%80%9ctapped%e2%80%9d-makes-bottled-water-look-all-wet/comment-page-1/#comment-106887 Kray Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:50:38 +0000 http://eatdrinkbetter.com/?p=2617#comment-106887 Hey Tom, So. What's your comments on the amount of water that was being sucked out of the lakes during the droughts when local citizens were not allowed to water their lawns and wash their cars, or faced other restrictions? How about having 3rd parties provide investigations into the potential health risks of your bottles on the population and to the environment. Your comments most likely got cut out because you are hired by the bottled water industry to brainwash people into buying and drinking their product, not to protect people. I'll tell you what, If you give me the money to make the film, I will do a film solely based on your point of view. However, you also have to have independent 3rd parties run tests on your products, the bottles, the production and the acquisition tactics of the companies you work for. Sound fair? Hey Tom,
So. What’s your comments on the amount of water that was being sucked out of the lakes during the droughts when local citizens were not allowed to water their lawns and wash their cars, or faced other restrictions?

How about having 3rd parties provide investigations into the potential health risks of your bottles on the population and to the environment.

Your comments most likely got cut out because you are hired by the bottled water industry to brainwash people into buying and drinking their product, not to protect people.

I’ll tell you what, If you give me the money to make the film, I will do a film solely based on your point of view. However, you also have to have independent 3rd parties run tests on your products, the bottles, the production and the acquisition tactics of the companies you work for.

Sound fair?

]]> By: S.Erickson http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/12/03/new-documentary-%e2%80%9ctapped%e2%80%9d-makes-bottled-water-look-all-wet/comment-page-1/#comment-60026 S.Erickson Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:21:03 +0000 http://eatdrinkbetter.com/?p=2617#comment-60026 I understand how film making can be one sided sometimes due to they know what they want to focus on and sometimes do not bend as they should. But from what I got - part of their point was not just that the water is often better from the tap but that the whole process, drinking from plastic, made from petroleum, and then disposed of with out any regard more often than not to our environment - is also the problem. I guess I see it as a losing argument from your POV anyhow. How can you defend the above, really? Shipping water from other countries like Fiji, I have heard (not verified) prior to this film that the people who live there don't even have decent drinking water... I find it believable esp. after watching this. Some of the bottlers are just raping some of these US towns, stealing all their water due to loopholes in the laws. It's just simply wrong. I understand how film making can be one sided sometimes due to they know what they want to focus on and sometimes do not bend as they should. But from what I got – part of their point was not just that the water is often better from the tap but that the whole process, drinking from plastic, made from petroleum, and then disposed of with out any regard more often than not to our environment – is also the problem. I guess I see it as a losing argument from your POV anyhow. How can you defend the above, really? Shipping water from other countries like Fiji, I have heard (not verified) prior to this film that the people who live there don’t even have decent drinking water… I find it believable esp. after watching this. Some of the bottlers are just raping some of these US towns, stealing all their water due to loopholes in the laws. It’s just simply wrong.

]]> By: Tom Lauria -- IBWA http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/12/03/new-documentary-%e2%80%9ctapped%e2%80%9d-makes-bottled-water-look-all-wet/comment-page-1/#comment-58512 Tom Lauria -- IBWA Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:35:32 +0000 http://eatdrinkbetter.com/?p=2617#comment-58512 The International Bottled Water Association worked in good faith with Stephanie Soechtig on "Tapped," only to find MOST of our comments deliberate cut-out, destroying our side of the situation. In the film, the director's fast-paced edits of IBWA's Joe Doss proves my point. No wonder this one-sided lecture did not receive or earn commerical distribution; it's HACK film-making at its very worst. You writing about "Tapped" not pulling punches...well, Stephanie pulled OUR punches, whether we wanted her to do it or not. This mess is what happens when an organization acts in good faith to cooperate with critics. I lobbied hard to get IBWA to appearance on camera "to be fair and to be heard," but what we got was a nasty slice-n-dice job by an activist out to get us with deceitful, underhanded editing tactics. By the way, the FDA regulates the bottled water industry more intensely than most other packaged food products. Do facts even matter to angry activists? The International Bottled Water Association worked in good faith with Stephanie Soechtig on “Tapped,” only to find MOST of our comments deliberate cut-out, destroying our side of the situation. In the film, the director’s fast-paced edits of IBWA’s Joe Doss proves my point. No wonder this one-sided lecture did not receive or earn commerical distribution; it’s HACK film-making at its very worst. You writing about “Tapped” not pulling punches…well, Stephanie pulled OUR punches, whether we wanted her to do it or not. This mess is what happens when an organization acts in good faith to cooperate with critics. I lobbied hard to get IBWA to appearance on camera “to be fair and to be heard,” but what we got was a nasty slice-n-dice job by an activist out to get us with deceitful, underhanded editing tactics. By the way, the FDA regulates the bottled water industry more intensely than most other packaged food products. Do facts even matter to angry activists?

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