Food & Water Watch

Food & Water Watch is a Washington, D.C. based non-governmental organization and consumer rights group which focuses on corporate and government accountability relating to food, water, and fishing. Food and Water Watch employs a four pronged effort focusing on public and policymaker education, lobbying, media, and Internet activism. Food & Water Watch became independent from its parent organization, Public Citizen, in January 2006.

Food & Water Watch was the first to break the news of the high rate of salmonella in US chicken processing plants in July 2006. [http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2006-07-05T220508Z_01_N05312711_RTRUKOC_0_US-FOOD-USDA-SALMONELLA.xml&archived=False] Dead link|date=March 2008] Food and Water Watch has also been critical of the growing bottled water industry for health and environmental concerns.cite news
first = Diana
last = Denner
title = Bottling Water Concerns
url = http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16749756&BRD=1395&PAG=461&dept_id=216620&rfi=6
publisher = Ithaca Times
date = June 7, 2006
accessdate = 2007-05-24
language = English ] On August 24, 2007, Food & Water Watch announced success in its effort to get Starbucks Coffee to stop using milk originating from rBGH-treated cows, after Starbucks, in a letter to executive director Wenonah Hauter, stated that by December 31, 2007, all of the dairy products used in company-operated stores would be produced with rBGH-free milk.cite press release
title = Starbucks Agrees to Hold the Hormones For Good
publisher = Food & Water Watch
date = August 24, 2007
url = http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/press/releases/starbucks-agrees-to-hold-the-hormones-for-good-article08242007
language = English
accessdate = 2007-08-27 ] cite web
url = http://fwwatch.org/food/dairy/starbucks-campaign/starbucks-letter-to-fww
title = Starbucks Letter to F&WW
accessdate = 2007-08-27
date = August 24, 2007
publisher = Food & Water Watch
language = English]

Campaigns

* Fights against food irradiation.
* Promotion of sustainable agriculture, local, organic farming and small-scale agriculture.
* Restricting the practice of Aquaculture in American waters.
* Protection of drinking water standards.
* Efforts to get Starbucks Coffee to stop using milk from cows which have been treated with rBGH.

See also

*Sustainability
*Biodiversity
*Global warming
*Recycling
*Ecology
*Earth Science
*Natural environment

References

External links

* [http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/ Food & Water Watch]
* [http://www.youtube.com/GoodFoodnH2O Food & Water Watch YouTube channel]