Food & Water Watch will help make the largest celebration of food in America a completely bottled water-free event. Come for the exciting activities and delicious food this Labor Day weekend. Make sure to stop by our water stations to meet us and stay hydrated.

Irradiation: A Band-Aid Solution for Dirty Meat

Irradiating meat forms chemicals suspected to cause cancer and birth defects. Despite this concern, USDA officials have began discussing a plan to combat E.Coli by irradiating beef carcasses. Food producers need to address the source of the problem - processing that's too fast and unsanitary conditions - not promote an expensive, impractical, and potentially harmful technology. Tell Agriculture Secretary Schafer that you don't want irradiated meat.

Global Food Crisis: Key Player Revealed

While millions of people around the world face severe hunger, the handful of Cargill Cover agribusiness corporations that dominate the global agricultural market are seeing huge profits. One of the key players in the global food market, Cargill, is profiled in a new report entitled Cargill: A Corporate Threat to Food and Farming.

Read more about Cargill: A Corporate Threat to Food and Farming

Want Chinese Chicken on Your Plate?

The Chinese government and some big agribusiness players want to export processed chicken from China to the U.S. However, the Chinese food safety system doesn't have the best track record. In the past year alone, American consumers have been exposed to dangerous imports from China ranging from deadly pet food and blood thinners to toxic toys and fish.

Sign our petition and urge Congress to keep the ban on unsafe Chinese chicken imports.

Join the Fight for Artificial Hormone-Free Milk

Healthy Milk Action Image Help us grow the demand for milk produced without artificial growth hormones! Sign our petition and pass it around (we are over half-way to our goal of 10,000 names!). We need your support in getting healthier milk and dairy products on our supermarket shelves and in restaurant chains. Chipotle, Kroger, and Wal-Mart are the most recent stores choosing to supply rBGH-free dairy products. Let's keep that a growing trend. Sign our petition to thank them and encourage others to do the same.

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Reports

What’s Behind the Global Food Crisis? — The 2008 global food crisis is compromising the su ...
Cargill: A Corporate Threat to Food and Farming — This report, Cargill: A Corporate Threat to Food a ...
Carbon Monoxide — In today’s world, seeing is not believing –– ...
More Foul Fowl — The bacteria Salmonella is the leading cause of fo ...
The Trouble With Smithfield: A Corporate Profile — Four corporations control 66 percent of the U.S. h ...

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