Food & Water Watch
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| Founded | 2005 |
|---|---|
| Focus | Consumer protection |
| Location | |
Area served | International |
Key people |
Maude Barlow (Chairperson) Wenonah Hauter (Executive Director) |
| Website | http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/ |
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 2005.
Food & Water Watch was the first to break the news of the high rate of salmonella in US chicken processing plants in July 2006.[1] Food and Water Watch has also been critical of the growing bottled water industry for health and environmental concerns.[2] 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,[3] stated that by December 31, 2007, all of the dairy products used in company-operated stores would be produced with rBGH-free milk.[4][5]
Charity Watch rates Food & Water Watch an "A" grade.[6]
Campaigns
- Fights against food irradiation, including publication of Zapped: Irradiation and the Death of Food, a book co-authored by Hauter and Mark Worth.[7]
- 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 prevent sourcing of milk from cows treated with rBGH.
See also
References
- ↑ Top poultry processors faulted for high Salmonella rates - Food Production Daily, 6 July 2006
- ↑ Denner, Diana (June 7, 2006). "Bottling Water Concerns". Ithaca Times. Retrieved 2007-05-24.
- ↑ Book review for Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America by Wenonah Hauter(The New Press)
- ↑ "Starbucks Agrees to Hold the Hormones For Good" (Press release). Food & Water Watch. August 24, 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-27.
- ↑ "Starbucks Letter to F&WW". Food & Water Watch. August 24, 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-27.
- ↑ Charity Rating Guide and Watchdog Report, Volume Number 59, December 2011
- ↑ "New Book Reveals Decades-Long Food Safety PR Scam" (Press release). Food & Water Watch. 2008-06-10. Retrieved 2009-11-17.
Further reading
- Driver, Anna (2010-05-17). "U.S. regulators sued over BP's Atlantis platform". Houston, Texas. Reuters. Archived from the original on 2010-05-17. Retrieved 18 May 2010.
External links
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