From Ballotpedia
"Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced." This organization is a "non-profit organization that advocates for common sense policies that will result in healthy, safe food and access to safe and affordable drinking water."
[1] They have grown to over 60 staff members since their inception in 2005.
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Major Victories
- "Influenced Starbucks to discontinue using milk from cows treated with artificial growth hormones."[1]
- "Helped dozens of communities organize across the country stop the corporate takeover of their publicly owned water systems."[1]
- "Defended consumers’ right to know what they’re eating by fighting for mandatory country-of-origin labeling and ensured that technologies like food irradiation continue to be labeled."[1]
- "Raised awareness nationwide about the environmental, health and equity problems with the bottled water industry. More than 10,000 people have taken our pledge to Take Back the Tap."[1]
Issues
- "Food: We work to promote the practices and policies that will result in sustainable and secure food systems that provide healthy food for consumers and an economically viable living for family farmers and rural communities."[1]
- "Water: We advocate for public control of water resources and services, strong conservation measures and tough regulation of toxic emissions. The policies we promote will result in safe and affordable drinking water for everyone, rather than reliance on bottled water."[1]
- "Fish: We promote policies that maintain the environmental quality of the ocean and its resources. We oppose policies and practices that lead to the privatization of ocean resources, including massive factory fish farms and dangerous oil platforms, as a misuse of an important public resource."[1]
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