. . . while sipping an rBGH free latte?

It's just a week into 2008 and already we've seen reason to celebrate—thanks to the work of Food & Water Watch activists and the work of many of our allies, on January 1, Starbucks Coffee Co. officially went rBGH-free! This means that when you order a latte or any drink with milk in it, you can rest assured that none of the cows that produced that milk were treated with the artificial hormone r-BGH. Now that's a reason to raise your glass!

We're also happy to share with you today a brand new website called H2O Conserve that shows us how to do something about our 1,000-plus gallon-a-day habit. We've worked with our friends at Johns Hopkins University, GRACE, and the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility to create this one-of-a-kind online tool to calculate your "water footprint." Be sure to try out this useful new tool!

Here's some more of what you can expect from Food & Water Watch in 2008:

• We'll press for more labeling of foods so that we know where our food is coming from and how it's produced, in order to make better choices about what we feed our families;

• We'll campaign around the country to upgrade and improve our nation's public water systems so everyone has access to clean, affordable water;

• We'll work to stop the Bush administration from parceling out our shared oceans to wealthy corporate interests;

• We'll continue to expose the myth of bottled water purity and work with college campuses and restaurants to choose healthy public tap water instead of the corporate-controlled bottled water.

You can stay up to date on all our campaign by signing up here.