Food & Water Watch does an excellent job of keeping tabs on the food safety issues I care about. It would be a full-time job to stay updated myself. Their petitions are simple, to the point, and easy to share.
Oil and gas fracking threatens California’s precious water, air, land and public health. Already, more than 50,000 Californians have asked for a ban. Our issue brief explains why the only way to protect Californian’s health and environment is to ban fracking. Join Californians in telling their governor and legislators to ban fracking now!
Food & Water Watch’s Common Resources program focuses on pollution trading schemes, water markets, public-public partnerships, catch shares and offshore aquaculture.
Financial interests have determined that trading money, risk and related financial products outperforms the profitability of manufacturing products or even trading goods and services. Now, they are aiming to exploit our common resources for profit.
While the demand for water is on the rise, the supply is shrinking. Water-intensive agriculture, population growth, industrial pollution, breakneck development and other ecological threats are depleting freshwater supplies.
Many large fishing operations are getting more than their fair share of fishing opportunities. If this continues, the results are likely to include: depletion of wild seafood, environmental damage to our oceans and the collapse of coastal communities.
When water becomes an expensive commodity, social cohesion erodes in neighborhoods and communities. The result is that basic rights become privileges.
Industrialized aquaculture facilities are rapidly replacing natural methods of fishing that have been used to catch fresh, wild seafood for millennia.
Communities that have experimented with privatization have found that it does not solve their water woes. In fact, many private companies are providing worse service at a higher cost than most public utilities.
Pollution trading is being promoted as a way to prevent agricultural wastes from polluting our waterways. But it’s no solution at all. It enables polluters to keep polluting and is not a proven way to limit harmful pollutants from entering our waterways.
In European discussions on energy security, shale gas is often presented as a game changer. However, a whole range of environmental problems have been identified with shale gas development.
