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.
In our short existence since 2005, we have made a difference in on many fronts. A few of our accomplishments are noted below:
Our influential report Import Alert, which was widely quoted and praised on Capitol Hill, was released just days before the FDA suddenly banned the importation of several varieties of factory–farmed fish from China –– fish that our report uncovered serious problems with.
Our expertise on food safety and factory farming is paying off as Congress considers a new Farm Bill. Our work to ensure that our farm policy benefits consumers and farmers rather than agribusiness is making a difference to opinion leaders and has been recognized in a New York Times editorial and in the Nation Magazine, among many other places. A key public education tool has been an interactive map on the Internet showing factory farm locations.