Food & Water Watch
- 1616P Street NW Ste 300
- Washington, District Of Columbia
- 20036
- Phone: 1 202 683 2500
- Website
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Description
Food & Water Watch is a nonprofit consumer organization that works to ensure clean water and safe food in the United States and around the world. We challenge the corporate control and abuse of our food and water resources by empowering people to take action and by transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink. At Food & Water Watch we believe that the public should be able to count on our government to oversee and protect the quality and safety of food and water. We deserve to know that food and water are free of unhealthy chemicals, bacteria and added hormones. We have the right to know where our food comes from with accurate labeling and we have the right to clean, affordable, publicly owned water. Food & Water Watch is dedicated to working on behalf of the public to assert and regain these rights as we lobby for effective government standards and oversight, organize the public to take action, and educate the public and the media on these basic issues. Today, we are in a worldwide struggle for control of our food and water. Over the past 100 years, food production has changed dramatically. Food is no longer just a sustainer of life it is a profit center for large multinational corporations. Family farmers and fishermen are facing bankruptcy and relocation to large urban slums. The work of producing our food, replaced by large corporate enterprises. Consumers lose too. ...