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From: Wenonah Hauter, Food & Water Watch <[log in to unmask]>
To: thmathews <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Fri, Mar 7, 2014 4:04 pm
Subject: "Dr. Evil" is attacking us




                


 
Dear Thomas,

Yesterday, an industry front group launched an attack on Food & Water Watch with a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal, and a website calling us a "big green radical." This front group is led by notorious corporate PR flack/lobbyist Rick Berman, a man that 60 Minutes calls "Dr. Evil." He's been behind many industry front groups shilling for everyone from the tobacco industry to the fast food industry.

Now it appears that he's doing the dirty work of the Oil and Gas Industry and Big Ag to try to discredit the effective work that we've been doing. We need your help to keep fighting for the things we can't live without.

We knew this day would come. If you're doing effective work to challenge corporate control, eventually those corporations will attack you. As you know, the industries that we're up against have nearly unlimited resources to spin lies about us, and try to discredit our work, but we have you and over half a million others who stand with us.

So I'm writing to ask for your help to respond to this attack, and keep fighting for the things we cannot live without — clean water and healthy food for us all, and a democracy that responds to the needs of people, not corporate fat cats and their profits. That means stopping fracking, protecting your right to know what is in your food, and working every day to protect our food and water.
Will you stand with Food & Water Watch, and help us combat the lies in this attack?

 Food & Water Watch is not being attacked because we are "BIG" — we are being attacked because we are effective. Big Oil and Gas companies are worried because they want to frack everywhere in the country, and together, we are stopping them in their tracks. Big Ag and Pharmaceutical companies are worried about the growing movement to demand healthy and sustainable food, and because they know we are challenging their model of industrial food production (GMOs, abuse of antibiotics, toxic chemicals) — a model that is lining their pockets but making us all less healthy.

We know this attack shows our outsized effectiveness in relation to our relatively small budget, and we're honored to be recognized for our work to hold corporations accountable and force government to do its job, but we need to treat this as a real threat. We don't know what else this industry front group has up it's sleeve. While you know Food & Water Watch is doing good work, we're still a relatively new organization, and don't have nearly as many resources as other large national groups to defend ourselves in the media.

As you know, we don't take any money from corporations or the government, so we truly can remain independent and fight for what we want, not compromising on the things we can't live without. We rely on our supporters like you to do our cutting-edge research, advocate for strong policy positions on issues like banning fracking and labeling genetically engineered foods, and build the people power that we need to win on these campaigns.

We're not going to change a single thing because of this attack, but we need to know you have our back.

Can you chip in now to help us fight off this industry-led attack?

Thanks for standing with us,

Wenonah Hauter
Executive Director
Food & Water Watch
wenonah(at)fwwatch(dot)org


                                
 


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