New Website: Food and Water Watch

Posted by on August 11, 2006

[posted from Community Food Security listserv]

New Consumer Group?s Web Site Debuts as Resource on Food and Water Issues

Journalists, Public Officials, and Citizens Urged to Use Site for Research, Education, and Activism

Amidst the furor of takeovers of U.S. resources by multinational corporations and media reports about the meat industry?s controversial practice of using carbon monoxide to extend shelf life on meat products, a new consumer group has emerged to tackle the growing corporate control and abuse of essential resources. Food & Water Watch recently launched its new Web site. It is available at http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org.

?Nearly everyday, we hear about yet another food safety scare or another community that is protesting jacked-up water rates forced on them by private providers. People across the United States and the world are starting to realize the impact that corporations have had on our public resources ? and they aren?t happy about it,? said Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch. ?We hope our new Web site will help people learn more about what they eat and drink, and motivate them to take action, get involved, and demand change.